Overview :Here, Ilan Stavans, one of the foremost Latino scholars, collects his best essays into one volume. As a Mexican Jew whose native languages a... Read More
Overview :This is the first book-length study of one of the most prominent and prolific Latino academics, Ilan Stavans. He has written extensively on ... Read More
Overview :Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesHere is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the livin... Read More
Overview :Spanglish-a hybrid of Spanish and English-is intricately interwoven with the history and culture of Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing... Read More
Overview :The whole of The Catcher in the Rye is in the Oxford English Dictionary, waiting to be unscrambled, and so are all the novels of our past, p... Read More
Overview :Octavio Paz: Nobel Prize winner, author of The Labyrinth of Solitude and Sor Juana, or, the Traps of Faith, precursor and pathfinder, a gu... Read More
Overview :Hailed as one of the most important Hispanic writers of his generation, Ilan Stavans is mostly known for his penetrating essays on culture. ... Read More
Overview :The Wall is a poetic exploration--across time, space, and language, real as well as metaphorical--of the U.S.-Mexican wall dividing the two ... Read More
Overview :An irreverent and kaleidoscopic cartoon history of Latino life, culture, and politics, now revised and updated for its twenty-fifth annivers... Read More
Overview :Our understanding of love today is not the same as the one espoused by Plato in the fourth century BCE. Nor is it the same as the courtly lo... Read More
Overview :What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical an... Read More
Overview :The United States of Mestizo is a powerful manifesto attesting to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century.... Read More
Overview :For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and... Read More
Overview :"Una merenda azeremos," Abuela says to her grandson. "But I don't understand," says the boy. "It means 'we will cook together' in our secret... Read More
Overview :"Una merenda azeremos," Abuela says to her grandson. "But I don't understand," says the boy. "It means 'we will cook together' in our secret... Read More
Overview :Labor leader, social justice advocate, Chicano leader, and humanitarian are only some of the multifaceted renderings of C sar Ch vez. Ilan S... Read More
Overview :Natives of the Iberian Peninsula and the twenty countries of Latin America, as well as their kinsfolk who've immigrated to the United States... Read More
Overview :The Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts is home to immigrants and refugees from around the globe, and their presence revitalizes the reg... Read More