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Return to Centro Histórico
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ISBN: 9780813552262 0813552265 9780813551913 0813551919 Year: 2011 Publisher: Piscataway Rutgers University Press

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Inspired by a stirring e-mail exchange with his father, award-winning essayist and cultural commentator , Ilan Stavans decided to do something bizarre: revisit his hometown, Mexico City, accompanied by a tour guide.  With the same linguistic verve and insight that has made him one of the most distinguished voices in American literature today, Ilan Stavans invites readers along for a personal journey that is not only his own, but that of an entire culture. Return to Centro Hist#65533;rico makes it possible for readers to understand the intimate role that Jews have played in the devleopment of Hispanic civilzation.


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Return to Centro histórico : a Mexican Jew looks for his roots
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Year: 2011 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,

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On borrowed words (a memoir of language)
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ISBN: 0142000949 9780142000946 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Penguin books

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The restless Ilan Stavans
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ISBN: 9780822986843 0822986841 9780822965855 0822965852 Year: 2019 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa.

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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.


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Stavans Unbound : The Critic Between Two Canons
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ISBN: 1644690071 9781644690079 9781644690062 1644690063 Year: 2019 Publisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press,

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Twenty-five years ago, Ilan Stavans published his first book, Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage (1993). Since then, Stavans has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and praised in equal measure, a commanding if contested intellectual whose work as a cultural critic has been influential in the fields of Latino and Jewish studies, politics, immigration, religion, language, and identity. He can be credited for bringing attention to Jewish Latin America and issues like Spanglish, he has been instrumental in shaping a certain view of Latino Studies in universities across the United States as well abroad, he has anthologized much of Latino and Latin American Jewish literature and he has engaged in contemporary pop culture via the graphic novel. He was the host of a PBS show called Conversations with Ilan Stavans, and has had his fiction adapted into the stage and the big screen. The man, as one critic stated, clearly has energy to burn and it does not appear to be abating. This collection celebrates twenty-five years of Stavans's work with essays that describe the good and the bad, the inspired and the pedestrian, the worthwhile and the questionable.


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¡Muy Pop!
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ISBN: 0472035517 0472029444 0472118935 1306357888 9780472029440 9780472035519 9780472118939 Year: 2013 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan

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A book-length conversation between two leading scholars on the themes and questions of Hispanic popular culture


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The seventh heaven
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ISBN: 0822987155 0822945851 082296631X 9780822987154 9780822945857 Year: 2019 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa.

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"Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher Columbus's arrival. In the tradition of V.S. Naipaul's exploration of India, the Caribbean, and the Arab world, he came back with an extraordinarily vivid travelogue. Stavans talks to families of the desaparecidos in Buenos Aries, to 'Indian Jews,' and to people affiliated with neo-Nazi groups in Patagonia. He also visits Spain to understand the long-term effects of the Inquisition, the American Southwest habitat of 'secret Jews,' and Israel, where immigrants from Latin America have reshaped the Jewish state. Along the way, he looks for the proverbial 'seventh heaven,' which, according to the Talmud, out of proximity with the divine, the meaning of life in general, and Jewish life in particular, becomes clearer. The Seventh Heaven is a masterful work in Stavans's ongoing quest to find a convergence between the personal and the historical."

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Travel writing. --- Travel --- Authorship --- Stavans, Ilan --- Stavans, Ilan. --- Argentina. --- Chile. --- Cuba. --- Israel. --- Latin America. --- Mexico. --- Stavchansky, Ilan --- Amherst College --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- Dawlat Isrāʼīl --- Država Izrael --- Dzi͡arz͡hava Izrailʹ --- Gosudarstvo Izrailʹ --- I-se-lieh --- Israele --- Isrāʼīl --- Isŭrael --- Isuraeru --- Izrael --- Izrailʹ --- Medinat Israel --- Medinat Yiśraʼel --- Stát Izrael --- State of Israel --- Yiselie --- Yiśraʼel --- Middle East --- Guba --- Kkuba --- Küba --- Kuuba --- Kyūba --- Republic of Cuba --- República de Cuba --- An t-Sile --- An tSile --- Chih-li --- Chili --- Chili Mastor --- Chili Respublikasʹ --- Ch'ille --- Çhillee --- Chilmudin Orn --- Chilska --- Chilská republika --- Chiri --- Chyli --- Ciile --- Cîl --- Cile --- Çili Respublikası --- Ĉilia Respubliko --- Ĉilio --- Dēmokratia tēs Chilēs --- Gweriniaeth Tsile --- iChile --- ITshile --- Kili --- Lepupalika ʻo Chile --- Lýðveldið Kili --- Lýðveldið Síle --- Ndenndaandi Ciile --- Pobblaght ny Shillee --- Poblachd na Sile --- Repubblica del Cile --- Republic of Chile --- República de Chile --- República de Xile --- Republik Chile --- Republik Chili --- Republika Chilska --- Republika Čile --- Republiḳah shel Tsilah --- Republikken Chile --- République du Chili --- Repúbrica de Chili --- Rėspublika Chyli --- Shillee --- Síle --- Sily --- t-Sile --- Til --- Tšiili --- Tšiili Vabariik --- Tsilah --- Tsile --- Ts'ileh --- Txile --- Txileko Errepublika --- Xile --- Yn Çhillee --- Argenṭinah --- Argenṭine --- Argentine Confederation --- Argentine Nation --- Argentine Republic --- Aruzenchin --- Confederación Argentina --- Nación Argentina --- República Argentina --- South America

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