Stavans unbound : the critic between two canons /
Stavans unbound : the critic between two canons /
edited by Bridget Kevane.
- 1 online resource.
- The lands and ages of the Jewish people .
Includes bibliographical references.
Forword / Introduction / Ilan Stavans: our meturgeman par excellence / Life as role play: Ilan Stavans, the life (long) writer / El iluminado: Ilan Stavans and the incongruity of the antihero / Life, death, and the apotheosis of words: DIC·TION·AR·Y DAYS / Cave paintings: Cervantes, turbans, and heresy / Freedom to pursue the impossible dream: Ilan Stavans and Don Quixote / Stavans does Quixote / Ilan Stavans, tongue snatcher / El español y el spanglish en la era de Trump / "A world defined by immigration": ambivalence, transnationality, and mestizaje in Ilan Stavans / Translation as a way to write the city / Returning borrowed words: translation and Ilan Stavans's contribution to the English langauge / On words reclaimed and the fate of Ladino / Introductions: Ilan Stavans and the "Jewish Latin America" series / Ilan Stavans's anthologization of the Latino community in the United States / Mexican bandit or the last intellectual?: Ilan Stavans's notorious raid on the Chicano literary canon / Poetry and music: interview with Ilan Stavans / Crossing borders: Ilan Stavans's adventures on stage with Double Edge Theater / Broken streets of my city / Spaces of the body / Epilogue: seven lies about Ilan Stavans / Notes on Contributers. Frederick Aldama -- Bridget Kevane -- Beth Kissileff -- Isabel Durán -- Irina Troconis -- Angelina Muñiz-Huberman (translated by Miriam Huberman) -- Diana de Armas Wilson -- Iván Jaksić -- William Childers -- Steven G Kellman -- Silvia Betti -- Ivonne M. García -- Regina Galasso -- Christopher Schafenacker -- Devin E. Naar -- Stephen A. Sadow -- Thomas Nulley-Valdés -- A game of mirrors: the conversations of Ilan Stavans / Derek Xavier García -- Ilan Stavans and the Mojarra condition / Luis Loya García -- Carlos Flores -- Ian Campbell -- Stacy Klein and Matthew Glassman -- Ruth Bahar -- Isaac Goldemberg -- Jeremy Dauber --
"Twenty-five years ago this year, 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"--
1644690071 9781644690079 (electronic bk.)
22573/ctv1zg1rtg JSTOR
2019006930
Stavans, Ilan--Criticism and interpretation.
Stavans, Ilan.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PQ7079.2.S78
868/.6409
Includes bibliographical references.
Forword / Introduction / Ilan Stavans: our meturgeman par excellence / Life as role play: Ilan Stavans, the life (long) writer / El iluminado: Ilan Stavans and the incongruity of the antihero / Life, death, and the apotheosis of words: DIC·TION·AR·Y DAYS / Cave paintings: Cervantes, turbans, and heresy / Freedom to pursue the impossible dream: Ilan Stavans and Don Quixote / Stavans does Quixote / Ilan Stavans, tongue snatcher / El español y el spanglish en la era de Trump / "A world defined by immigration": ambivalence, transnationality, and mestizaje in Ilan Stavans / Translation as a way to write the city / Returning borrowed words: translation and Ilan Stavans's contribution to the English langauge / On words reclaimed and the fate of Ladino / Introductions: Ilan Stavans and the "Jewish Latin America" series / Ilan Stavans's anthologization of the Latino community in the United States / Mexican bandit or the last intellectual?: Ilan Stavans's notorious raid on the Chicano literary canon / Poetry and music: interview with Ilan Stavans / Crossing borders: Ilan Stavans's adventures on stage with Double Edge Theater / Broken streets of my city / Spaces of the body / Epilogue: seven lies about Ilan Stavans / Notes on Contributers. Frederick Aldama -- Bridget Kevane -- Beth Kissileff -- Isabel Durán -- Irina Troconis -- Angelina Muñiz-Huberman (translated by Miriam Huberman) -- Diana de Armas Wilson -- Iván Jaksić -- William Childers -- Steven G Kellman -- Silvia Betti -- Ivonne M. García -- Regina Galasso -- Christopher Schafenacker -- Devin E. Naar -- Stephen A. Sadow -- Thomas Nulley-Valdés -- A game of mirrors: the conversations of Ilan Stavans / Derek Xavier García -- Ilan Stavans and the Mojarra condition / Luis Loya García -- Carlos Flores -- Ian Campbell -- Stacy Klein and Matthew Glassman -- Ruth Bahar -- Isaac Goldemberg -- Jeremy Dauber --
"Twenty-five years ago this year, 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"--
1644690071 9781644690079 (electronic bk.)
22573/ctv1zg1rtg JSTOR
2019006930
Stavans, Ilan--Criticism and interpretation.
Stavans, Ilan.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PQ7079.2.S78
868/.6409