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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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Mexican American authors --- Authors, American --- Authors, American. --- Mexican American authors. --- Stavans, Ilan. --- 1900-1999.
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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.
Mexican American authors --- Hispanic American authors --- Authors, Hispanic American --- Authors, American --- Stavans, Ilan --- Stavchansky, Ilan --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Amherst College
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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.
Conversations with Ilan Stavans. --- Ilan Stavans. --- Jewish Latin America. --- Jewish studies. --- Latin American Jewish literature. --- Latin American literature. --- Latina Studies. --- Latino literature. --- Latino studies. --- Spanglish. --- Stavans. --- contemporary pop culture. --- graphic novel. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American. --- Stavans, Ilan --- Stavchansky, Ilan --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Stavans, Ilan. --- Amherst College
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A book-length conversation between two leading scholars on the themes and questions of Hispanic popular culture
American literature --- Hispanic American arts. --- Hispanic Americans and mass media. --- Hispanic Americans --- Popular culture --- Hispanic American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Mass media and Hispanic Americans --- Mass media --- Arts, Hispanic American --- Ethnic arts --- Stavans, Ilan --- Aldama, Frederick Luis, --- Aldama, Frederick Luis --- Stavchansky, Ilan --- Social life and customs. --- Amherst College
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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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