Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword Ilan Stavans xi
Introduction Frederick Luis Aldama 3
I Vanguard Forms and Latinx Sensibilities
Chapter 1 The Uncommon Wealth of Art: Poetic Progress as Resistance to the Commodification of Culture in United States of Banana Madelena Gonzalez 23
Chapter 2 Rompiendo esquemas: Catastrophic Bravery in United States of Banana John "Rio" Riofrio 32
Chapter 3 Exile and Burial of Ontological Sameness: A Dialogue between Zarathustra and Giannma Anne Ashbaugh 43
Chapter 4 Yo-Yo Boing! Or Literature as a Translingual Practice Francisco Moreno-Fernandez 54
Chapter 5 Bilingual Big Bang: Giannina Braschi's Trilogy Levels the Spanish-English Playing Field Maritza Stanchich 63
II Persuasive Art of Dramatic Voices
Chapter 6 Giannina and Braschi: A Polyphony of Voices Cristina Garrigós 81
Chapter 7 The Poetry of Giannina Braschi: Art and Magic in Assault on Time Laura R. Loustau 91
Chapter 8 The Human Barnyard: Rhetoric, Identification, and Symbolic Representation in United States of Banana Elizabeth Lowry 100
Chapter 9 Gamifying World Literature: Giannina Braschi's United States of Banana Daniela Daniele 111
III Intermedial Poetics and Radical Thinking
Chapter 10 Leaping Off the Page: Giannina Braschi's Intermedialities Dorian Lugo Bertrán 123
Chapter 11 Free-dom: United States of Banana and the Limits of Sovereignty Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús 133
Chapter 12 The Holy Trinity: Money, Power, and Success in United States of Banana Francisco Jose1 Ramos 156
Chapter 13 My Dinner with Giannina: Rolando Pérez Interviews Giannina Braschi 166
Contributors 181
Index 185
