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United States of Banana

United States of Banana

United States of Banana is a 2011 novel by the Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi. Her first work written fully in English, it is a mixed-genre work which blends experimental theater, prose poetry, short story, and essay with a manifesto on democracy and American power in a post–9/11 world. The book also explores the author's displacement after the attacks from her home in the Battery Park neighborhood in New York City.


“I want to be free from freedom. Free.”

United States of Banana (2011)

“Freedom is a demagogue.”

United States of Banana (2011)

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