'' 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
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United States of Banana