TY - BOOK ID - 80840793 TI - The restless Ilan Stavans PY - 2019 SN - 9780822986843 0822986841 9780822965855 0822965852 PB - Pittsburgh, Pa. DB - UniCat KW - Mexican American authors KW - Hispanic American authors KW - Authors, Hispanic American KW - Authors, American KW - Stavans, Ilan KW - Stavchansky, Ilan KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Amherst College UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80840793 AB - This is the first book-length study of one of the most prominent and prolific Latino academics, Ilan Stavans. He has written extensively on Latino culture, Jewish culture, dictionaries, immigration, language, Spanglish, soccer, translation, travel, selfies, and God. The Restless Ilan Stavans surveys his interests, achievements, and flaws while he is still in the midst of an extraordinarily productive career. A native of Mexico who became a U.S. citizen, he is an outsider to both the Chicano community that often resents him as an interloper and the American Jewish community that he, who grew up speaking Yiddish in Mexico City, often chides. The book examines his unlikely rise to prominence within the context of the spread of multiculturalism as a seminal principle within American culture. A self-proclaimed cosmopolitan who rejects borders, Stavans is both insider and outsider to the myriad of subjects he approaches. ER -