Stavans unbound : the critic between two canons / edited by Bridget Kevane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kevane, Bridget A., 1963- editor.

Series:

Lands and ages of the Jewish people

The lands and ages of the Jewish people

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stavans, Ilan.

Criticism and interpretation.

Stavans, Ilan--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxi, 242 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2019.

Language Note:

Most contributions in English with one in Spanish.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Forword / Frederick Aldama

Introduction / Bridget Kevane

Ilan Stavans: our meturgeman par excellence / Beth Kissileff

Life as role play: Ilan Stavans, the life (long) writer / Isabel Dur�an

El iluminado: Ilan Stavans and the incongruity of the antihero / Irina Troconis

Life, death, and the apotheosis of words: DIC�TION�AR�Y DAYS / Angelina Mu�niz-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 / Iv�an Jaksi�c

Stavans does Quixote / William Childers

Ilan Stavans, tongue snatcher / Steven G Kellman

El espa�nol y el spanglish en la era de Trump / Silvia Betti

"A world defined by immigration": ambivalence, transnationality, and mestizaje in Ilan Stavans / Ivonne M. Garc�ia

Translation as a way to write the city / Regina Galasso

Returning borrowed words: translation and Ilan Stavans's contribution to the English langauge / Christopher Schafenacker

On words reclaimed and the fate of Ladino / Devin E. Naar

Introductions: Ilan Stavans and the "Jewish Latin America" series / Stephen A. Sadow

Ilan Stavans's anthologization of the Latino community in the United States / Thomas Nulley-Vald�es

A game of mirrors: the conversations of Ilan Stavans / Derek Xavier Garc�ia

Ilan Stavans and the Mojarra condition / Luis Loya Garc�ia

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

Crossing borders: Ilan Stavans's adventures on stage with Double Edge Theater / Stacy Klein and Matthew Glassman

Broken streets of my city / Ruth Bahar

Spaces of the body / Isaac Goldemberg

Epilogue: seven lies about Ilan Stavans / Jeremy Dauber

Notes on Contributers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Stavans unbound

ISBN:

9781644690062

1644690063

OCLC:

1083466308

Publisher Number:

99982195236