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 |
“The Beast in Me: Review of Fury by Salman Rushdie” New York Times, (2001). [1] Gonzalez, Madelena. "United States of Banana (2011), Elizabeth Costello... 4 KB (325 words) - 14:29, 8 May 2024 |