YoYo Boing!, Giannina Braschi
YoYo Boing!, Giannina Braschi
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Yo-Yo Boing!

Author: Giannina Braschi, Tess O'Dwyer

Narrator: Adriana Sananes

Unabridged: 6 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/04/2012

Synopsis

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 Giannina 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.First published in Spanglish in 1998 to rave reviews, this is the first English publication of Yo-Yo Boing!

About Giannina Braschi

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Facundo

The first bit me pareció disgusting, some sort of description of pus o algo así. So I skipped una buena parte, un mecanismo I resorted to quite often al leer este libro. No, it didn't keep my interest all along, pero el code-switching ayudó a pick up mi interés cada time it flagged. Some bits were mu......more

Goodreads review by Gessy

An important book to read for any writer dealing with the question of bilingualism in her work. For this one, you will definitely need to know Spanish to fully experience the beauty and genius of Ms. Braschi's work. She's wise and playful. Imaginative and willing to take you to places that make you......more

Goodreads review by Sheena

I read this in college for a Spanish Lit class and loved it. Wrote a thesis on it. This book is creative/captivating and truly embodies the identity/culture struggles that bi-lingual/bi-cultural individuals face in America.......more

Goodreads review by Literary

Quoting a philosphy professor..."Giannina Braschi posessess one of the most original voices raised within Latino letters… Daring, novel, and likely to change the character of poetic discourse. No other writer has captured the mesh and flow of this new brand of American bilingualism with such passion......more

Goodreads review by Roxanna

Gianinna Brashchi escribe con indudable talento pero por momentos el libro se torna bastane aburrido, just to have the prose attract your attention again at later times. Lo que me gusta de este libro: its wild literary aesthetic, the fact that she doesn't have to ask permision para ser bilingüe y es......more

Quotes

“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

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