Empire of Dreams
โ Scribed by Giannina Braschi, Tess O'Dwyer
- Book ID
- 110628180
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780300057959
- ASIN
- B004S7KBM8
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โฆ Synopsis
Empire of Dreams
Giannina Braschi & Tess O'Dwyer
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Fiction, General
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.
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