lan Stavans is an American writer and academic. He writes and speaks on American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures. He is the author of Quixote (2015) and a contributor to the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010). He was the host of the syndicated PBS show Conversations with Ilan Stavans, which ran from 2001 to 2006.
70 द्वारा ईबुक Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans: The United States of Mestizo
The United States of Mestizo is a powerful manifesto attesting to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Writer Ilan Stavans meditates on how the cross-fertilizing …
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Ilan Stavans: Latinos in the United States
As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in the U.S. represent the second-largest concentration of Hispanic people in the entire world, after …
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Ilan Stavans: Latinos in the United States
As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in the U.S. represent the second-largest concentration of Hispanic people in the entire world, after …
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Ernesto Galarza: Barrio Boy
Journey with Ernesto Galarza through time, place, and culture in this stunning memoir of Mexican American identity and acculturation.Barrio Boy is the remarkable story of one boy’s journey from a …
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Stavans Ilan Stavans: Immigration
Immigration is a topic on the minds of a large portion of Americans. In 2006, a series of large marches and political debates shook the nation to the core. With the 2008 presidential campaign under …
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Stavans Ilan Stavans: Spanglish
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. With deep roots that …
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Stavans Ilan Stavans: Latina Writers
Latina literature is one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today, and the impact Latina writers have had on the literary scene is undeniable. This volume features the most …
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Stavans Ilan Stavans: Border Culture
The border between the United States and Mexico, despite attempts at containment, remains a vast and uniquely malleable yet indefinable region. With Border Culture, Ilan Stavans has collected essays …
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Stavans Ilan Stavans: Mexican-American Cuisine
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 …
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Stavans Ilan Stavans: Quinceanera
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 …
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Stavans Ilan Stavans: Cesar Chavez
Labor leader, social justice advocate, Chicano leader, and humanitarian are only some of the multifaceted renderings of Cesar Chavez. Ilan Stavans has compiled essays and first-person narratives that …
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Stavans Ilan Stavans: Health Care
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 …
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Stavans Ilan Stavans: Telenovelas
Drama! Excess! Men in bee suits! Often erroneously compared to soap operas of the United States, outside of the necessary and sometimes fantastical dramatic story arc, however, the telenovela differs …
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Stavans Ilan Stavans: Beisbol
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, …
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Stavans Ilan Stavans: Futbol
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 …
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Ilan Stavans: Inveterate Dreamer
Not only do "modern" Jewish languages like Yiddish and Hebrew have their own Jewish writers, but every major Western tongue-from German and Russian to English and Portuguese-does as well. …
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Ilan Stavans: Scroll and the Cross
Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by Ilan Stavans, whom The Washington Post described as "one of our …
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Ilan Stavans: Scroll and the Cross
Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by Ilan Stavans, whom The Washington Post described as "one of our …
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Stavans Ilan Stavans: Latin Music
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 …
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Ilan Stavans: Singer’s Typewriter and Mine
A cultural critic of extraordinary erudition, encyclopedic knowledge, and boundless curiosity, Ilan Stavans, an Ashkenazic Jew who grew up in Mexico, negotiates wildly varied topics as effortlessly …
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Ilan Stavans: The Wall
<b>Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry</b>
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The Wall</i> is a poetic exploration—across time, space, and language, real as well as …
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Esther Singer Kreitman: Dance of the Demons
A semi-autobiographical portrait of the original Yentl and “an important contribution to the vastly neglected genre of feminist Yiddish literature” (Booklist). In this …
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Ilan Stavans: The Seventh Heaven
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in …
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Ilan Stavans: Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies
At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the Latino minority, the biggest and fastest growing in the United States, is at a crossroads. Is assimilation taking place in comparable …
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Ilan Stavans: Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies
At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the Latino minority, the biggest and fastest growing in the United States, is at a crossroads. Is assimilation taking place in comparable …
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Juan de Recacoechea: American Visa
“American Visa is beautifully written, atmospheric, and stylish in the manner of Chandler . . . a smart, exotic crime fiction offering.” —George Pelecanos, …
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Ilan Stavans: And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again
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. …
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Jimmy Santiago Baca: Selected Poems/Poemas Selectos
“Baca writes with unconcealed passion . . . and manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythical and archetypal significance of life events.”—Denise Leve …
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Ilan Stavans: The Riddle of Cantinflas
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. “A Dr …
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Ilan Stavans: Oy, Caramba!
“Writers from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, and other countries represent an ethnically diverse culture with roots in eastern Europe as well as Spain. . . . The anthology inc …
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Octavio Paz: Monkey Grammarian
Nobel Prizewinner Octavio Paz offers a dazzling mind journey to the sources of poetry. Poet, diplomat, writer, philosopher, hailed as an intellectual literary one-man band by the New York Times Book …
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Ilan Stavans: On Self-Translation
Finalist for the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Essay category
From award-winning, internationally known scholar and translator Ilan Stavans comes
On Self-Translation, a col …
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What Remains
After the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center on New York’s Seneca Lake in 1995, more than four hundred abandoned suitcases were discovered in its attic, containing thousands of personal …
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Ilan Stavans: Borges, the Jew
Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion category
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2016
In this volume, award-winning cultural critic and controversial pub …
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Ilan Stavans: Bandido
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 …
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Ilan Stavans: Bandido
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 …
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Gabriel N. Finder & Avinoam Patt: Laughter After
A global tour of Jewish humor about the Holocaust. Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaustargues that humor performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. Co-editors David …
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Ilan Stavans: Jewish Literature
The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to …
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Ilan Stavans: Jewish Literature
The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to …
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Juan Pablo Iglesias: Daniel and Ismail
A one-of-a-kind, uplifting picture book about a Jewish boy and a Palestinian boy who bond on the soccer field-translated into English, Hebrew, and Arabic.Daniel and Ismail, one Jewish and the other …
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The 1, 001 Nights
In a new collection that brings together the work of eleven notable translators, with an introduction by the bestselling Iranian-American author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi, and original …
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Ilan Stavans: Popol Vuh
An inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Maya myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans, gorgeously illustrated by Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios and i …
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Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote of La Mancha
Newly introduced by leading Quixote scholar Ilan Stavans, this 400th Anniversary edition of Don Quixote of La Mancha—called the most popular book in history after the Bible and the first modern novel …
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Ilan Stavans & Josh Lambert: How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how h …
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Cesar Vallejo: Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems
A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet”s work
Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, …
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Ilan Stavans: And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again
In this rich, eye-opening and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists and translators from more than thirty countries offer a profound, kaleidoscopic portrait of lives …
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Ilan Stavans: The People’s Tongue
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 …
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Linda Elovitz Marshall & Ilan Stavans: Mexican Dreidel
Danielito loves Januca, especially playing dreidel. This year, he is old enough to visit Bobe by himself. Pinatas hang from the trees, and the kids in Bobe’s neighborhood play with Mexican tops …
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Linda Elovitz Marshall & Ilan Stavans: Mexican Dreidel
Danielito loves Januca, especially playing dreidel. This year, he is old enough to visit Bobe by himself. Pinatas hang from the trees, and the kids in Bobe’s neighborhood play with Mexican tops …
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Linda Elovitz Marshall & Ilan Stavans: Mexican Dreidel
Kar-Ben Read-Aloud e Books with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring e Books to life! Danielito loves Januca, especially playing dreidel. This year, he is old enough to …
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Ilan Stavans: Sur l”Auto-traduction
Sur l”Auto-traduction rassemble une série d”essais et de conversations sur le langage et ses diverses facettes, sur la manière dont la syntaxe est restructurée par les technologies actuelles, …
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Stavans Ilan Stavans: Latin Music
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 …
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Stephen A. Sadow: I Am of the Tribe of Judah
The first anthology of its kind, I Am of the Tribe of Judah: Poems from Jewish Latin America brings together poetry from the Mexican border to the tip of South America. Originally written in Spanish, …
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Juan Gelman: Otrarse
One of Latin American’s most important poets of the twentieth century, Juan Gelman (1930–2014) spent much of his life in exile from his native Argentina during the Dirty War. A significant, seldom-ac …
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Ilan Stavans: Translation as Home
Translation as Home is a collection of autobiographical essays by Ilan Stavans that eloquently and unequivocally make the case that translation is not only a career, but a way of life.Born in Mexico …
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Ilan Stavans: Selected Translations
For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other languages. His versions of Borges, Neruda, Sor Juana …
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Ilan Stavans: I Love My Selfie
What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie’s historical and cultural roots by discussing everything from Greek …
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Joshua Ellison & Ilan Stavans: Reclaiming Travel
Based on a controversial opinion piece originally published in the New York Times, Reclaiming Travel is a provocative meditation on the meaning of travel from ancient times to the twenty-first …
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Jorge J. E. Gracia & Ilan Stavans: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Latino Art
The essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans and the analytic philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia share long-standing interests in the intersection of art and ideas. Here they take thirteen pieces …
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Margaret E. Boyle & Ilan Stavans: Sabor Judio
Sabor Judio celebrates the delicious fusion of two culinary traditions, Jewish and Mexican. Written with joy and verve, Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle’s lavishly illustrated cookbook demonstrates …
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