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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:The Lands and Ages of the Jewish People
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.)
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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