Winner of 2005 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Winner of 2005 National Medal of Arts My Sax Life is the award-winning memoir of famed Cuban musician Paquito D'Rivera. A best-selling artist with more than thirty solo albums to his credit, D'Rivera has performed at the White House and the Blue Note, and with orchestras, jazz ensembles, and chamber groups around the world. Propelled by jazz-fueled high spirits, D'Rivera's story soars and spins from memory to memory in a collage of his remarkable life. D'Rivera recalls his early nightclub appearances as a child,...
Winner of 2005 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Winner of 2005 National Medal of Arts My Sax Life is the award-winning...
Born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico in 1910, Josefina Maria Niggli was one of the first Latina writers to have her work published in the United States--and thus one of the first to introduce American audiences to the culture and people flourishing along the U.S.-Mexico border. Well ahead of what is now called Chicano literature, her writings--spanning a broad range of genres, subjects, and styles--offer an insider's view of the everyday lives little known or noted outside of their native milieu. In Niggli's plays, for instance, these often invisible working class Mexicans were literally...
Born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico in 1910, Josefina Maria Niggli was one of the first Latina writers to have her work published in the United Stat...
Hailed as one of the most important Hispanic writers of his generation, Ilan Stavans is mostly known for his penetrating essays on culture. He is also a celebrated storyteller whose work has been translated into a dozen languages and has garnered numerous international awards. "The Disappearance: A Novella and Stories "contains three small, masterful gems. The novella "Morirse esta en hebreo," is a thought-provoking meditation on continuity and tradition among Mexican Jews that takes place just as a decades-long one-party dictatorship is crumbling down. The volume also features "Xerox Man,"...
Hailed as one of the most important Hispanic writers of his generation, Ilan Stavans is mostly known for his penetrating essays on culture. He is also...
Since his first publication in 1942, Luis Leal has likely done more than any other writer or scholar to foster a critical appreciation of Mexican, Chicano, and Latin American literature and culture. This volume, bringing together a representative selection of Leal s writings from the past sixty years, is at once a wide-ranging introduction to the most influential scholar of Latino literature and a critical history of the field as it emerged and developed through the twentieth century. Instrumental in establishing Mexican literary studies in the United States, Leal s writings on the topic...
Since his first publication in 1942, Luis Leal has likely done more than any other writer or scholar to foster a critical appreciation of Mexican, Chi...
"The One-Handed Pianist "was published to acclaim in the early 1990 s, with the two-part Spanish edition winning the Latino Literature Prize in 1989 and the Gamma Literature Prize in 1992. Its tales look at what it means to be Jewish in the Hispanic world a world in which spirituality is often exercised outside the realm of orthodoxy.
Stavans constructs fables that raise questions about ethnicity and community; even Stavans person raises questions about ethnicity and community: what does it mean that a Jew of Eastern European lineage can call himself Latino and speak for that group?"
"The One-Handed Pianist "was published to acclaim in the early 1990 s, with the two-part Spanish edition winning the Latino Literature Prize in 198...
The past few years have seen an explosion of interest among U.S. readers for Latin American literature. Yet rarely do they experience such work in the original Spanish or Portuguese. Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz argue that the role of the translator is an essential--and an often ignored--part of the reception process among English-language readers. Both accomplished translators in their own right, Lowe and Fitz explain how stylistic and linguistic choices made by the translator can have a profound effect on how literary works are perceived by readers unfamiliar with a foreign language. They...
The past few years have seen an explosion of interest among U.S. readers for Latin American literature. Yet rarely do they experience such work in the...
Octavio Paz: Nobel Prize winner, author of The Labyrinth of Solitude and Sor Juana, or, the Traps of Faith, precursor and pathfinder, a guiding light of the Mexican intelligentsia in the twentieth century. In this small, memorable meditation on Octavio Paz as a thinker and man of action, Ilan Stavans described by the Washington Post as "one of our foremost cultural critics" and by the New York Times as "the czar of Latino culture in the United States" ponders Paz's intellectual courage against the ideological tapestry of his epoch and shows us what lessons...
Octavio Paz: Nobel Prize winner, author of The Labyrinth of Solitude and Sor Juana, or, the Traps of Faith, precursor and pathf...
For almost twenty years, Ilan Stavans--described by the Washington Post as "Latin America's liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast"--has interviewed path-breaking intellectuals and artists in a wide range of media. As host of the critically acclaimed PBS series La Plaza, he interviews guests on pressing issues that affect the Western Hemisphere today, asking hard-hitting questions on immigration, religion, bilingualism, race, and democracy. This book collects for the first time in one volume Stavans's most provocative and enlightening...
For almost twenty years, Ilan Stavans--described by the Washington Post as "Latin America's liveliest and boldest critic and most innov...
A pastime, delightful-- Chips, cards, and a table. The riddles insightful, the future, unstable What is it? It's Loteria, the Mexican game of chance For the uninitiated, it might seem like bingo played with a riddling tarot deck. But this enthralling board game is more than entertainment. The images found on its cards--La Virgen, El Pan Dulce, La Telenovela--are miniature reflections of an entire culture, capturing the joys and sorrows of the Mexican people. Wildly popular on both sides of the border, Loteria cards originated in the...
A pastime, delightful-- Chips, cards, and a table. The riddles insightful, the future, unstable What is it? It's L...
In Mexico, writes Ilan Stavans in the introduction to this provocative new collection on Mexican culture and politics, the essay] is embraced as passionately as a sport. While the American essay may be personal and confessional or erudite and academic, it is presumed to be truthful. By contrast, the Mexican essay pushes the boundaries between fact and fiction as writers seek to make their opinions heard in literary journals, in newspapers, and even on cereal boxes. What is real and what isn t in a Mexican essay, only God knows, concludes Stavans. In Hurricanes and Carnivals, Lee...
In Mexico, writes Ilan Stavans in the introduction to this provocative new collection on Mexican culture and politics, the essay] is embraced as pass...
