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Ilan Stavans
Collects the challenging and stimulating writing of Ilan Stavans into one essential volume, examining the voice of the Spanish-speaking cultures in the US.
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This collection presents a series of autobiographical meditations by Ilan Stavans on how language defines every aspect of our life.
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The first anthology of its kind, I Am of the Tribe of Judah brings together poetry from the Mexican border to the tip of South America. Originally written in Spanish…
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Pablo Neruda
The most comprehensive single volume available in English, presents nearly six hundred poems,scores of them in new and sometimes multiple translations, and many accompanied by the Spanish original.
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Lalo Alcaraz, Ilan Stavans, Ilan Stavans
An irreverent and kaleidoscopic cartoon history of Latino life, culture, and politics, now revised and updated for its twenty-fifth anniversary
Steven Kellman
A Study of the Work of Ilan Stavans
Miguel de Cervantes
After a lifetime of reading books on chivalry in his library, Don Quixote embarks on a comedic journey through medieval Spain with his servant Sancho Panza, in a series of…
This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by Ilan Stavans, described by The Washington Post as one of our foremost cultural critics, offers a sideboard of the ups and downs…
Offers an insight into Cortazar’s short fiction, 10 collections in all, showing Cortazar’s relationship to other writers of this genre, Garcia Marquez, Fuentes and Borges, and his place in Latin…
This volume compiled by Ilan Stavans examines the importance of ritual and celebration and the quinceanera celebration’s growing social importance to in the Latino community, particularly in the United States…
Ilan Stavans has amassed a collection of cutting-edge articles that inform readers about how Latinos navigate both the mainstream medical arena and culturally specific healing traditions. This work highlights the…
Stavans interweaves his own experience with that of other Jewish writers and thinkers to explore modern Jewish culture across the boundaries of language and nation
Set mainly in California’s Central Valley, Manuel Munoz’s collection of stories goes beyond the traditional family myths and narratives of Chicano literature and explores, instead, the constant struggle of characters…
Section two, Testimonios, takes careful consideration of lives affected by the border, either as a finite place, alternate universe, or the framework of the border as a state-of-mind, through various…
Providing food for the brain as well as the body, this wonderful collection of essays explores the boundaries between Mexican and Mexican-American foods, promotes philosophical understandings of Mexican-American cuisine, and…
The essays found in Telenovelas covers a broad view of the genre, television’s impact in Latino culture, as well as more in-depth discussions of specific telenovelas throughout the Spanish-speaking television…
This definitive two-volume encyclopedia of Latin music spans 5 centuries and 25 countries, showcasing musicians from Celia Cruz to Placido Domingo and describing dozens of rhythms and essential themes.
Ilan Stavans’s collection of essays on kitsch and high art in the Americas makes a return with thirteen new colorful conversations that deliver Stavans’s trademark wit and provocative analysis.
The first part, Considerations offers critical assessments of Chavez’s life that utilize different approaches to understanding his life, including cultural studies critiques, historical narrative that provide invaluable context, and even…
Is there such a thing as a modern Jewish literary tradition, one navigating across linguistic and national lines? If so, how should one define it? This volume explores the problems…
This insightful compilation offers interdisciplinary views on soccer among Latinos. In contrast with its relative lack of popularity in the United States, elsewhere, professional soccer is a hugely popular sport…
It is assumed that the literary figures on one side of the global have had little interest in the work of their counterparts. This book dispels this notion by showing…
Offers a gamut of essays on Latina writers from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including feminism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, historicism, gender, border, linguistic, and pan-American studies. This volume also features a…
This insightful collection documents Latinos in baseball from an interdisciplinary perspective. From the late, great Roberto Clemente, to Giants legend Juan Marichal to Pedro Martinez, Manny Ramirez, Sammy Sosa, Alex…
Spanglish-a hybrid of Spanish and English-is intricately interwoven with the history and culture of Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States.
Explores the human need to seize upon the meaning of things, and the attempt to catalogue existence with meaningful lexical signals called words . This title follows a history of…
Jewish identity and magical realism are the themes of the tales of adventure and cultural alienation collected here by the leading authority on Jewish Latin American literature. First published in…
Includes an English translation of Vasconcelos’ Mestizaje from his The cosmic race and his lecture The race problem in Latin America, one of three Harris Foundation lectures originally delivered at…
In what way is the Spanish language helping or impeding that assimilation? This volume features the most significant articles including peer-review essays, interviews, and reviews to bring together the best…
A international collection of poems celebrating the beauty of poetry in different languages.
Offers a poetic exploration - across time, space, and language, real as well as metaphorical - of the US-Mexican wall dividing the two civilizations, of similar walls (Jerusalem, China, Berlin…
Explores Borges’ infatuation with Jewish history and culture.
A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.
In this rich memoir, linguistic chameleon Stavans outlines his remarkable cultural heritage, from his birth in politically fragile Mexico through his years as a student activist and young Zionist in…
This is a searching examination of the life, work, and mysterious disappearance of the charismatic civil rights activist Oscar Zeta Acostaa leading figure in the Chicano movement of the 1960s..
This groundbreaking bilingual anthology, carefully designed for middle readers, demonstrates the energy, creativity, and diversity of the fastest-growing minority group in America. Wachale! (Spanglish for watch out! ) includes folk…
Examines the five major Hispanic groups in the United States, describing their cultural characteristics and their eventual role in mainstream America.
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This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of Garcia Marquez’s life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude.
A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America.
In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion…
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A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and more from Sojourner…
In the face of social inequalities, sometimes strength for mobilization can be found through laughter. It is this ethos that Ilan Stavans employs in this politically minded graphic novel. Weaving…
Ilan Stavans has collected the work of more than fifty notable Jewish writers from around the globe, weaving these diverse viewpoints and voices into a rich portrait of Jewish literary…
Complete with over 6000 entries, this marvelous linguistic guide explains why the emergence of Spanglish is a viable and important marker of the US Latino’s influence on American culture.
From the author-illustrator team behind the acclaimed Latino USA, an exuberant, irreverent survey of the American experience-a cartoon history of the people, by the people, and for the people.
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