{"id":268671,"date":"2024-11-14T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-hispanic-writer-giannina-braschi-wins-lifetime-achievement-prize\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T08:10:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T12:10:02","slug":"la-escritora-puertorriquena-giannina-braschi-gana-el-premio-angela-y-davis-2024-del-american-studies-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/la-escritora-puertorriquena-giannina-braschi-gana-el-premio-angela-y-davis-2024-del-american-studies-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic Writer Giannina Braschi Wins Lifetime Achievement Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p class=\"prntac\"><i>2024 Angela\u00a0Y. Davis Award from American Studies Association<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 12, 2024<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; FlowerSong Press announces that <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4298812-1&amp;h=1569508122&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flowersongpress.com%2Fauthors-ah%2Fgianninabraschi&amp;a=Giannina+Braschi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-person\">Giannina Braschi<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is the recipient of the 2024 Angela Y. Davis Award from the American Studies Association (ASA), the oldest and largest scholarly organization dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of U.S. cultures and histories.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgbb3eleft\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgbb3eleft\" title=\"Angela Y. Davis Award goes to Giannina Braschi, Puerto Rican philosopher, poet, and activist, author of Putinoika and United States of Banana.\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/2553275\/ANGELA_Y_DAVIS_AWARD_GIANNINA_BRASCHI.jpg\" alt=\"Angela Y. Davis Award goes to Giannina Braschi, Puerto Rican philosopher, poet, and activist, author of Putinoika and United States of Banana.\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Poet, philosopher, and activist <span class=\"xn-person\">Giannina Braschi<\/span> is recognized for &#8220;the outstanding contribution (her) work represents to American Studies and indeed, to the world,&#8221; stated Mishuana Goeman, President of ASA. The <span class=\"xn-person\">Angela Y. Davis<\/span> Award is named after the prominent black feminist philosopher, writer, and activist who has authored such books as <i>Women, Race, and Class<\/i> and <i>Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire<\/i>. Professor Davis was a critical voice in black freedom struggles and continues to organize against the prison-industrial complex.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the spirit of <span class=\"xn-person\">Angela Y. Davis&#8217;s<\/span> dedication to social justice, <span class=\"xn-person\">Giannina Braschi<\/span> has advanced public knowledge and activism through her research and unique talents as a public intellectual. She not only reminds us of our individual responsibility to be creative but of our collective creative power\u2014through metaphors, speeches, and revolutionary artforms, but also through direct appeals to government and through public manifestations. Braschi has dedicated nearly 40 years to creating a body of writing that helps to educate the public on the structural inequities of her native <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> and American society at large. She writes of the human flow of mass migrations, mass incarceration, democracy, liberty, and creativity,&#8221; observed FlowerSong Press&#8217;s Editor-in-Chief <span class=\"xn-person\">Frederick Luis Aldama<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Braschi&#8217;s opus magnus <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4298812-1&amp;h=733797639&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flowersongpress.com%2Fhighlight%2Fbraschi-putinoika&amp;a=Putinoika\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Putinoika<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(published by FlowerSong Press on <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 27, 2024<\/span>) discusses the rise of frenzy, rage, and plague in the Putin and Trump era, with the aim of ending pollution, collusion, and delusion. Her prior books include <i>Empire of Dreams<\/i>, <i><span class=\"xn-person\">Yo-Yo Boing<\/span>!<\/i>, and <i><span class=\"xn-location\">United States<\/span> of Banana.<\/i> The Library of Congress calls her writing &#8220;cutting-edge, influential, and even revolutionary.&#8221; Her texts have been widely adapted and applied to theatre, chamber music, graphic novels, photography, artist books, short films, <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4298812-1&amp;h=893736078&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Froidulac.store%2F&amp;a=fashion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">fashion<\/a>, industrial design, and urban planning.<\/p>\n<p>The American Studies Association Awards ceremony will take place in <span class=\"xn-location\">Baltimore<\/span> on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Thursday, November 14<\/span> at <span class=\"xn-chron\">6:00pm<\/span> in the Key Ballroom of the Baltimore Hilton Inner Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>Publicist <span class=\"xn-person\">Lucas Jones<\/span>: <a href=\"mailto:lucasjonespublicity@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">lucasjonespublicity@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4298812-1&amp;h=976478329&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F2553275%2FANGELA_Y_DAVIS_AWARD_GIANNINA_BRASCHI.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F2553275%2FANGELA_Y_DAVIS_AWARD_GIANNINA_BRASCHI.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/2553275\/ANGELA_Y_DAVIS_AWARD_GIANNINA_BRASCHI.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  FlowerSong Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p class=\"prntac\"><i>2024 Angela\u00a0Y. Davis Award from American Studies Association<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 12, 2024<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; FlowerSong Press announces that <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4298812-1&amp;h=1569508122&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flowersongpress.com%2Fauthors-ah%2Fgianninabraschi&amp;a=Giannina+Braschi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span class=\"xn-person\">Giannina&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arte-y-cultura"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268671"}],"version-history":[{"count":"2","href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268731,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268671\/revisions\/268731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}