Ilan Stavans is one of the foremost Latino scholars and here his best essays are collected into one volume. These beautifully written pieces explore the breadth of contemporary Latino-American culture, depicting and analyzing what he calls "life in the hyphen". Illustrations.
Ilan Stavans is one of the foremost Latino scholars and here his best essays are collected into one volume. These beautifully written pieces explore t...
Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This eclectic book of readings presents the ups and downs of that partnership. It includes some 70 canonical authors, Jews and non-Jews alike, through whose diverse oeuvre - poetry, fiction, theatre, personal and philosophical essays, correspondence, historical documents and even kitchen recipes - the reader is able to navigate the shifting waters of history, from Spain in the 10th century to the Spanish-speaking Americas and the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This eclectic book of readings presents the ups and downs of that partnership. ...
Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This eclectic book of readings presents the ups and downs of that partnership. It includes some 70 canonical authors, Jews and non-Jews alike, through whose diverse oeuvre - poetry, fiction, theatre, personal and philosophical essays, correspondence, historical documents and even kitchen recipes - the reader is able to navigate the shifting waters of history, from Spain in the 10th century to the Spanish-speaking Americas and the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This eclectic book of readings presents the ups and downs of that partnership. ...
An entertaining, provocative and often exhilarating collection, this anthology celebrates some of the most original and cutting-edge work to emerge from the cultural collide that is Latino life in the United States.
An entertaining, provocative and often exhilarating collection, this anthology celebrates some of the most original and cutting-edge work to emerge fr...
Not only do "modern" Jewish languages like Yiddish and Hebrew have their own Jewish writers, but every major Western tongue from German and Russian to English and Portuguese does as well. These writers are often at the crossroad between the two traditions: their Jewish one and their own national one. Is there such a thing as a modern Jewish literary tradition, one navigating across linguistic and national lines? If so, how should one define it?Ilan Stavans is uniquely qualified to answer these questions and to comment on the power and challenges of cultural margins and literary crossings. He...
Not only do "modern" Jewish languages like Yiddish and Hebrew have their own Jewish writers, but every major Western tongue from German and Russian to...
Hailed as a literary relative of Kafka and Poe by his Italian and Cuban contemporaries, Calvert Casey and his enthralling work have until now remained eclipsed in the United States. This collection brings all of Casey s powerful short stories and a fragment of an unfinished novel to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Exploring the human condition through poetically unique yet torturous views of the mind, Casey was a renegade artist whose work perceives reality as a smoke screen behind which Truth is hidden. He intended his fiction to disturb and subvert standard, plot-driven...
Hailed as a literary relative of Kafka and Poe by his Italian and Cuban contemporaries, Calvert Casey and his enthralling work have until now remained...
Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Ana Maria Shua is one of the most exciting and prolific young Latin American Jewish writers. She published her first book at the age of sixteen; since then she has published thirteen books, including nonfiction, novels, short stories, and children's books. The Book of Memories, originally published in Spanish in 1994, is a humorous yet moving exploration of a Jewish family's history, as seen through the eyes of three generations of women. The story begins with Grandfather Gedalia leaving Poland with forged papers to escape the army and sailing to Argentina, the...
Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Ana Maria Shua is one of the most exciting and prolific young Latin American Jewish writers. She published her first boo...
First published in 1973, this book traces the history of Luis de Carvajal the Younger and his family in Spain, their migration to the New World, their religious practices, and their adventures in New Spain until one by one they were put to flight or indicted by the Inquisition. Luis himself was burned at the stake in 1596 at the age of thirty. He left behind not only his legacy as an exemplary secret Jew but also valuable literary documents--his memoirs, his last will and testament, and his letters to his mother and sisters in the inquisitorial prison.
First published in 1973, this book traces the history of Luis de Carvajal the Younger and his family in Spain, their migration to the New World, their...
This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the uses of censorship. In the second part of the volume, Veronica Albin engages Stavans in a series of four conversations in which he expounds on the arguments he developed in the essays."
This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dicti...
This milestone collection gathers unpublished stories, essays, letters, poems and a teleplay written by Acosta (1935-1974), the legendary Chicano attorney, political activist and writer, between the early 1960s and shortly before his mysterious disappearance in Mazatlan, Mexico in 1974.
This milestone collection gathers unpublished stories, essays, letters, poems and a teleplay written by Acosta (1935-1974), the legendary Chicano atto...