Stavans Unbound - The Critic Between Two Canons

Who is Ilan Stavans? What has he done as a critic? In this book, more than twenty experts in both the Latinx and Jewish American studies field analyze his contributions to those canons.

List of contents

Foreword
Frederick Aldama
Introduction
Bridget Kevane
Life as Role Play: Ilan Stavans, the Life(long) Writer
Isabel Durán
El Iluminado: Ilan Stavans and the Incongruity of the Antihero
Irina Troconis
Life, Death, and Apotheosis of Words: DIC·TION·AR·Y DAYS
Angelina Muñiz-Huberman (translated by Miriam Huberman)
Cave Paintings: Cervantes, Turbans, and Heresy
Diana de Armas Wilson
Freedom to Pursue the Impossible Dream: Ilan Stavans and Don Quixote
Iván Jaksi¿
Stavans Does Quixote
William Childers
Ilan Stavans, Tongue Snatcher
Steven G. Kellman
El español y el spanglish en la era de Trump
Silvia Betti
¿A World Defined by mmigration¿: Ambivalence, Translationality, and Mestizaje in Ilan Stavans
Ivonne M. García
Translation as a Way to Write the City
Regina Galasso
Returning Borrowed Words: Translation and Ilan Stavans¿s Contribution to the English Language
Christopher Schafenacker
On Words Reclaimed and the Fate of Ladino
Devin E. Naar
Introductions: Ilan Stavans and the ¿Jewish Latin Americä Series
Stephen A. Sadow
Ilan Stavans¿s Anthologization of the Latino community in the United States
Thomas Nulley-Valdés
A Game of Mirrors: The Conversations of Ilan Stavans
Derek Xavier García
Ilan Stavans and the Mojarra Condition
Luis Loya García
Mexican Bandit or the Last Intellectual?: Ilan Stavans¿s Notorious Raid on the Chicano Literary Canon
Carlos Flores
Poetry and Music: Interview with Ilan Stavans
Ian Campbell
SPACES OF THE BODY
Isaac Goldemberg
Crossing Borders: Ilan Stavans¿s Adventures on Stage with Double Edge Theatre
Stacy Klein and Matthew Glassman
Broken Streets of My City
Ruth Behar
Epilogue: Seven Lies About Ilan Stavans
Jeremy Dauber
Notes on Contributors
Index

About the author

Bridget Kevane is a professor of Latin American & Latinx Studies. She has written four books on Latinx literature in America and is an author for general readership magazines such as Tablet, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Forward and others.

Summary

Ilans 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. This collection celebrates twenty-five years of Stavans' work.

Product details

Assisted by	Bridget Kevane (Editor)
Publisher	Ingram Publishers Services
Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	31.05.2021
EAN	9781644696095
ISBN	978-1-64469-609-5
No. of pages	266
Series	Lands and Ages of the Jewish P; The Lands and Ages of the Jewish People
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Judaism, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Literature: history and criticism

Product details

• Assisted by: Bridget Kevane (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781644696095
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-609-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Lands and Ages of the Jewish P; The Lands and Ages of the Jewish People
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Judaism, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Literature: history and criticism