Empire of Dreams by Giannina Braschi

Empire of Dreams

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Empire of Dreams by Giannina Braschi
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Empire of Dreams

Yale University Press

Empire of Dreams

by Giannina Braschi

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 Straddling the line between fiction and poetry, Empire of Dreams speaks of Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi's love affair with New York City--her imagined social, political, erotic, and linguistic relationships to the place that has acted as a magnet to Puerto Ricans for so many years.

The work deals with issues of performance, gender ambiguity, and marginality. It is concerned with the boundaries of language and the possibilities of cross-dressing poetry as commercials, diary, tabloids, gossip, confessions, videos, autobiography, musicals, and manifesto. Characters turn into other characters. Clowns, buffoons, shepherds, lead soldiers, magicians, madmen, witches, fortune-tellers, and artists perform their fantasies in the city streets. An antinovel within the book satirizes the writer's role in the modern age and calls for a revolution of poetry. New York City becomes the site of liberation for its marginal citizens, as the narrator is led through a seeming phantasmagoria of internal and external trials in order to experience the center--of political power, of meaning, of feeling, and of personal identity.

Book Details
Publisher:
Yale University Press
ISBN:
9780300057959
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
244
Authors:
Giannina Braschi
Published Date:
1998-08-11
Language:
English
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About Giannina Braschi

A Puerto Rican poet, novelist, and dramatist who writes in Spanish, Spanglish, and English, Giannina Braschi holds a PhD in Hispanic literatures from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her collected poems were translated by Tess O'Dwyer as Empire of Dreams (Yale University Press, 1994), and her other works include Yo-Yo Boing! (Latin American Literary Review Press, 1998), United States of Banana (AmazonCrossing, 2011), and Putinoika (Brown Ink, 2024). Her honors include awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and PEN America. In 2022 she received the Enrique Anderson Imbert Award. Braschi has taught Hispanic literatures at Rutgers University, Colgate University, and the City University of New York.

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