United States of Banana (2011) is a postmodern allegorical novel by the Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi. It is a cross-genre work that blends experimental...
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Commercial banana production in the United States is relatively limited in scale and economic impact. While Americans eat 26 pounds (12 kg) of bananas per person...
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The Banana Wars were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America...
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by U.S. corporations, such as the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita). Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes...
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Red bananas are a group of varieties of bananas with reddish-purple skin. Some are smaller and plumper than the common Cavendish banana, others much larger...
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Giannina Braschi (category Puerto Rican people of Italian descent)
scholar. Her notable works include Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) and United States of Banana (2011). Braschi writes cross-genre literature...
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sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of the Boston Fruit Company with Minor C. Keith's banana-trading enterprises...
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Sodindo Banana (5 March 1936 – 10 November 2003) was a Zimbabwean Methodist minister, theologian, and politician who served as the first President of Zimbabwe...
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2011). "Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States". Retrieved 8 March 2011. Purdue University (United States) - Banana passionfruit Data related to Passiflora...
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Philippines became a top banana supplier. February 23 is National Banana Bread Day in the United States. Banana raisin bread Banana nut bread (often featuring...
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