Yo-Yo Boing!, by Giannina Braschi
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Yo-Yo Boing!, by Giannina Braschi
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This groundbreaking novel, set in New York City during the 1990s, is guaranteed to be unlike any literary experience you have ever had. Acclaimed Puerto Rican author Giannini Braschi has crafted this creative and insightful examination of the Hispanic-American experience, taking on the voices of a variety of characters ― painters, poets, sculptors, singers, writers, filmmakers, actors, directors, set designers, editors, and philosophers ― to draw on their various cultural, economic, and geopolitical backgrounds to engage in lively cultural dialogue. Their topics include love, sex, food, music, books, inspiration, despair, infidelity, jobs, debt, war, and world news. Braschi’s discourse winds throughout the city’s public, corporate, and domestic settings, offering an inside look at the cultural conflicts that can occur when Anglo Americans and Latin Americans live, work, and play together. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as “a literary liberation,” this energetic and comical novel celebrates the contradiction that makes contemporary American culture so wonderfully diverse. Praise for Yo-Yo Boing!: “Known for their radical linguistic and structural inventions, as well as for their overt political thrust…Giannina Braschi’s postmodern poetry collection Empire of Dreams and her ground-breaking bilingual novel Yo-Yo Boing! are an “in-your-face assertion” of the vitality of Latino culture in the US.” - The New York Daily News “The novel, evoking the name of the island’s famous comedian Yo-Yo Boing!, is neither fully written in English or Spanish, but rather sashays between the two languages much the way Puerto Rico itself sashays between two cultures, two identities, and two languages.” - The San Juan Star “Braschi’s novel is...a literary liberation. The interlocutors...yo-yo from subject to subject: writers, films, sex, childhood, family and ultimately Puerto Rican artistic expression in New York City. Allusions come helter-skelter, as Fellini, Pee-Wee Herman, Nabokov and even Columbia University Latin Americanist Jean Franco are invoked, celebrated, and derided. Braschi’s melange of prose and poetry... is admirable for its energy (and) its experimental format.” - Publishers Weekly
Yo-Yo Boing!, by Giannina Braschi- Published on: 2015-09-15
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .50" w x 5.25" l,
- Running time: 6 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
Review The Spanglish literary tour de force now available in English translation by Tess O’Dwyer “An ‘in-your-face assertion’ of the vitality of Latino culture in the U.S.” --New York Daily News “Exciting—as much a performance piece as a novel.” --Harold Augenbraum, National Book Foundation “A force to reckon with.” --Ilan Stavans, The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry “The best demonstration yet of Braschi’s extraordinary virtuosity… It is also a very funny novel, a novel of argumentative conversations that cover food, movies, literature, art, the academy, sex, memory, and everyday life. It is a book that should be performed as well as read.” --Jean Franco, Columbia University “A rush of gloriously nuanced sentences that teeter between the grotesque and burlesque…the text transmutes poetry into novel, into screenplay, dialogue, and by extension to more and sometimes unidentified variants.” --Doris Sommer, Harvard University “It bristles with lively...literary conversation.” --Kirkus Reviews “It’s what I call superb writing. It's as much a performance piece as it is a novel.” --Barney Rosset, The Evergreen Review “A literary liberation.” --Publishers Weekly “Braschi writes beautiful[ly]...playing with word forms in a musical, rhythmic way…reflecting the way language is actually used.” –-Library Journal
About the Author A native of Puerto Rico, Giannina Braschi is an influential and versatile writer of poetry, fiction, and essays. She was a tennis champion and fashion model during her youth in San Juan, before moving to Madrid to study with the Spanish poets Carlos Busoño and Claudio Rodriguez. She lived in Paris, Rome, and London before settling in New York, where she has taught at Rutgers University, City University, and Colgate University. She holds a Ph.D. in Golden Age Spanish literature and has written on Cervantes, Garcilaso, Lorca, Machado, Vallejo, and Bécquer. Her cutting-edge work in Spanish, Spanglish, and English has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, el diario, PEN American Center, Ford Foundation, Danforth Scholarship, InterAmericas, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, and Reed Foundation. She currently serves as a literary judge for the PEN Book Awards. Tess O’Dwyer's English rendition of the Latino literary classic Empire of Dreams by Giannina Braschi won the Columbia University Translation Center Award and inaugurated the Yale Library of World Literature in Translation. With a master's degree in literature from Rutgers, she edited Review: Art and Literature of the Americas and translated the nineteenth century social realist Chilean novel Martin Rivas by Alberto Blest Gana for Oxford University Press. Tess O'Dwyer's short story about her late Korean mother, entitled “Ballerina of Chestnut Mountain,” won first place in the national short story competition of the Hackney Literary Awards. She is a board member of PEN American Center, Evergreen Review, and Harvard University’s Cultural Agents Initiative. She runs her own fundraising consultancy in New York City.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. An important work by a talented writer By A Customer Love her or hate her, Braschi writes, as she says in the novel, "big books." And this one certainly demonstrates the power of her ambition. This is an important post-modernist work that attempts to grapple with the issues generated by the confusing hybridity that shapes the contemporary Puerto Rican world. Some of the reading is tedious, and although some parts are humorous, it is not the knee-slapping farce that some readers claim it is. But one cannot doubt Braschi's enormous talent. She's an intelligent, witty writer, clearly in command of her craft who takes risks. ---JL Torres-Padilla, UPR, Cayey
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Do it. Buy it. Read it. Excellent. By eatquestnyc I just re read this book having gotten back into Ms Braschi after finishing her mind blowing new book United States of Banana. So glad that I did! It held up and then some. Her humor runs deep, is very dark and also makes you just giggle. Sometimes I felt like she was expressing thoughts that I assumed were only in my head but she could articulate them and give them great meaning. Ha. Yes, you have to concentrate but how lovely to do that again in this age of the quick light fix and sound bites. I don't think there are writers at present who are doing what she does, capturing the social and intellectual scene of the time and thinking in a manner that is passionate, moving and so far outside any box I could even dream of. She challenges the reader and also kind of says - hey c'mon, this will be a blast. Read it. Have a great time.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Engaging By A Customer I picked up this novel for course work in Latin American Studies and I couldn't put it down. This piece is so original, stirring and emotionally gripping that I have recommended it to friends and family. You don't have to be a major in Latin American Literature to make the most of this novel. You have to have a sense of humor and fierce concentration. It's a fast talking book, one that will linger in my imagination for a long time to come.
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