Giannina Braschi [SEP] sex or gender
fiction, "United States of Banana" (2011). Her collective work explores the lives of Latin American immigrants in the United States.
Early life.
Giannina Braschi was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1953 to a family of Italian ancestry. As an adolescent in San Juan, she ranked first place in the U.S. Tennis Association's national tournament in Puerto Rico. In 1966 she became the youngest female tennis player to win the Women's Division on the island. Her father Euripides (called "Pilo
Parade and take over the City of New York; the shepherds ring the bells of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and seize the observation deck of the Empire State Building.
Alicia Ostriker, a feminist poet and scholar, praised Braschi's "Empire of Dreams", which features gender role-playing and transvestism. She says it has "sheer erotic energy that defies definition and dogma." 
Later Works in Spanglish and English
In the late 1990s, Giannina Braschi began writing and performing dramatic dialogues in English, Spanish