Stavans Unbound : : The Critic Between Two Canons / / ed. by Bridget Kevane.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Aldama, Frederick,; Armas Wilson, Diana de,; Behar, Ruth,; Betti, Silvia,; Campbell, Ian,; Childers, William,; Dauber, Jeremy,; Durán, Isabel,; Flores, Carlos Nicolás,; Galasso, Regina,; García, Derek Xavier,; García, Ivonne M.,; Glassman, Matthew,; Jaksić, Iván,; Kellman, Steven G.,; Kevane, Bridget,; Kissileff, Beth,; Klein, Stacy,; Loya García, Luis,; Muñiz-Huberman, Angelina,; Naar, Devin E.,; Nulley-Valdés, Thomas,; Sadow, Stephen A.,; Schafenacker, Christopher,; Stavans, Ilán,; Troconis, Irina,
• HerausgeberIn: Kevane, Bridget,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: The Lands and Ages of the Jewish People
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 p.)

Twenty-five years ago, 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- 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 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, Translationality, 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 Language -- 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 -- A Game of Mirrors: The Conversations of Ilan Stavans -- Ilan Stavans and the Mojarra Condition -- Mexican Bandit or the Last Intellectual?: Ilan Stavans’s Notorious Raid on the Chicano Literary Canon -- Poetry and Music: Interview with Ilan Stavans Ian Campbell -- Crossing Borders: Ilan Stavans’s Adventures on Stage with Double Edge Theatre -- Broken Streets of My City -- Spaces of the Body -- Epilogue: Seven Lies About Ilan Stavans -- Notes on Contributors -- Index