Stavans Unbound: The Critic Between Two Canons

Published by Academic Studies Press 2019

Stavans Unbound

The Critic Between Two Canons

Edited by: Bridget Kevane

In the series The Lands and Ages of the Jewish People

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690079

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About this book

Who is Ilan Stavans? What has he done as a critic? In this book, more than twenty experts in both the Latinx and Jewish American studies field analyze his contributions to those canons.

Author / Editor information

Kevane Bridget :

Bridget Kevane is Professor of Latin American & Latino/a Studies and director of Liberal Studies at Montana State University.

Bridget Kevane is a professor of Latin American & Latinx Studies. She has written four books on Latinx literature in America and is an author for general readership magazines such as Tablet, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Forward and others.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Frederick Aldama Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Bridget Kevane Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Ilan Stavans: Our Meturgeman Par Excellence Beth Kissileff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Life as Role Play: Ilan Stavans, the Life (long) Writer Isabel Durán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
El Iluminado: Ilan Stavans and the Incongruity of the Antihero Irina Troconis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Life, Death, and Apotheosis of Words: DIC·TION·AR·Y DAYS Angelina Muñiz-Huberman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Cave Paintings: Cervantes, Turbans, and Heresy Diana de Armas Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Freedom to Pursue the Impossible Dream: Ilan Stavans and Don Quixote Iván Jaksić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Stavans Does Quixote William Childers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Ilan Stavans, Tongue Snatcher Steven G. Kellman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
El español y el spanglish en la era de Trump Silvia Betti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
“A World Defined by Immigration”: Ambivalence, Translationality, and Mestizaje in Ilan Stavans Ivonne M. García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Translation as a Way to Write the City Regina Galasso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Returning Borrowed Words: Translation and Ilan Stavans’s Contribution to the English Language Christopher Schafenacker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
On Words Reclaimed and the Fate of Ladino Devin E. Naar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Introductions: Ilan Stavans and the “Jewish Latin America” Series Stephen A. Sadow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
Ilan Stavans’s Anthologization of the Latino Community in the United States Thomas Nulley-Valdés Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
A Game of Mirrors: The Conversations of Ilan Stavans Derek Xavier García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Ilan Stavans and the Mojarra Condition Luis Loya García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Mexican Bandit or the Last Intellectual?: Ilan Stavans’s Notorious Raid on the Chicano Literary Canon Carlos Nicolás Flores Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Poetry and Music: Interview with Ilan Stavans Ian Campbell Ian Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Crossing Borders: Ilan Stavans’s Adventures on Stage with Double Edge Theatre Stacy Klein and Matthew Glassman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Broken Streets of My City Ruth Behar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Spaces of the Body Ilán Stavans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Epilogue: Seven Lies About Ilan Stavans Jeremy Dauber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 266
Keywords: Ilan Stavans; Latino studies; Jewish studies; Jewish Latin America; Spanglish; Latin American literature; Latino literature; contemporary pop culture; graphic novel; Latin American Jewish literature; Conversations with Ilan Stavans; Stavans; Latina Studies

eBook

Published: June 14, 2019
ISBN: 9781644690079