id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7388 Yo-Yo Boing! - Wikipedia .html text/html 3155 490 57 (1998) is a postmodern novel in English, Spanish, and Spanglish by Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi.[1][2] The cross-genre work is a structural hybrid of poetry, political philosophy, musical, manifesto, treatise, memoir, and drama.[3] The work addresses tensions between Anglo-American and Hispanic-American cultures in the United States.[4] has many examples of the linguistic phenomena of code-switching[15] between English and Spanish, as spoken by millions of Latinos and Hispanic-Americans in the United States and in Puerto Rico.[16] It is the first full-length novel to use Spanglish as a high art form.[1] The translingualism in this Latino narrative anticipated multicultural readers who could readily decode both languages in order to co-construct the storyworld.[1] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7388.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7388.txt