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... 19 KB (1,961 words) - 03:55, 4 November 2023 |
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... 6 KB (686 words) - 12:50, 22 April 2024 |
The Banana Wars were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America... 21 KB (2,107 words) - 13:44, 7 May 2024 |
by U.S. corporations, such as the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita). Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes... 35 KB (3,708 words) - 18:59, 3 May 2024 |
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... 28 KB (2,826 words) - 05:00, 5 February 2024 |
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some... 111 KB (10,318 words) - 01:48, 9 May 2024 |
Chiquita (redirect from Chiquita banana) salads. Chiquita is the leading distributor of bananas in the United States. Chiquita is the successor to the United Fruit Company. It was formerly controlled... 57 KB (5,751 words) - 12:52, 15 May 2024 |