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The Mexican Dreidel (Hardcover)
Linda Elovitz Marshall, Ilan Stavans; Illustrated by Maria Mola
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Based on Ilan Stavans' new translation which accurately captures
the verve of the original, this Norton Critical Edition includes:
an introduction and explanatory annotations; contextual materials
highlighting the novella's strong anticlerical views and its
affinities with Don Quixote in depictions of social hierarchy in
Renaissance Spain; as well as excerpts from Juan de Luna's
Lazarillo sequel; and eleven critical studies.
With the release of the census figures in 2000, Latino America
wasanointed the future driving force of American culture. The
emergence of Spanglish as a form of communication is one of the
more influential markers of an America gone Latino. Spanish,
present on this continent since the fifteenth century, when Iberian
explorers sought to colonize territories in what are now Florida,
New Mexico, Texas, and California, has become ubiquitous in the
last few decades. The nation's unofficial second language, it is
highly visible on several 24-hour TV networks and on more than 200
radio stations across the country.
But Spanish north of the Rio Grande has not spread in its pure
Iberian form. On the contrary, a signature of the brewing "Latin
Fever" that has swept the United States since the mid-1980s is the
astonishing creative linguistic amalgam of tongues used by people
of Hispanic descent, not only in major cities but in rural areas as
well -- neither Spanish nor English, but a hybrid, known only as
Spanglish.
This is a searching examination of the life, work, and mysterious
disappearance of the charismatic civil rights activist Oscar Zeta
Acostaa leading figure in the Chicano movement of the 1960s..
This is a searching examination of the life, work, and mysterious
disappearance of the charismatic civil rights activist Oscar Zeta
Acostaa leading figure in the Chicano movement of the 1960s..
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Deborah (Hardcover)
Esther Kreitman; Translated by Maurice Carr; Introduction by Ilan Stavans; Afterword by Anita Norwich
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Written with rage and passion about her own journey to creative
self-fulfilment against the odds, the novel begins in the hermetic,
traditional world of Polish Jewry before the first World War.
Deborah is the daughter of an unworldly rabbi. Talented and
ambitious but condemned to household chores, Deborah frets that she
is not allowed to receive the same education and opportunities as
her brothers. She fails in love with a communist but then an
arranged marriage is proposed...This is a classic that scholars and
fans of the Singers continually refer to for its authentic account
of life in the Singer household and the struggle of Esther Kreitman
to be free. Deborah was first published in Warsaw in Yiddish in
1936 and later translated by her son Maurice Carr into English in
1946 and published by W.G Foyle. It was republished by Virago in
1983 when her work was still unknown.
The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by
"the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language"
(Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the
Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the
author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin
America's most revered writers, lionized during his lifetime as
"the people's poet."
This selection of Neruda's poetry, the most comprehensive single
volume available in English, presents nearly six hundred poems,
scores of them in new and sometimes multiple translations, and many
accompanied by the Spanish original. In his introduction, Ilan
Stavans situates Neruda in his native milieu as well as in a
contemporary English-language one, and a group of new translations
by leading poets testifies to Neruda's enduring, vibrant legacy
among English-speaking writers and readers today.
Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by Ilan Stavans, whom The Washington Post described as "one of our foremost cultural critics," offers a sideboard of the ups and downs of that partnership. It includes some seventy canonical authors, Jews and non-Jews alike, through whose diverse oeuvre-poetry, fiction, theatre, personal and philosophical essays, correspondence, historical documents, and even kitchen recipes-the reader is able to navigate the shifting waters of history, from Spain in the tenth century to the Spanish speaking Americas and the United States today. The Reader showcases the writings of such notable authors as Solomon ibn Gabirol, Maimonides, Miguel de Cervantes, Henry W. Longfellow, Miguel de Unamuno, Federico García Lorca, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacobo Timerman, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ruth Behar, and Ariel Dorfman to name only a few. This volume is sure to become a treasured thesaurus for those interested in a marriage of civilizations whose future will affect us all.
The voice of the Spanish-speaking cultures in the US is stronger than it has ever been, and makes more significant contributions to academic study than ever before. The best way to understand why, and to grasp the changing nature of cultural intersections in the US, is to read this book, which collects the challenging and stimulating writing of Ilan Stavans into one essential volume.
Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle
of the Narvaez Expedition tells the unforgettable story of a
sixteenth-century soldier turned explorer who, along with three
other survivors of a shipwreck, makes his way across an unknown
geographic and cultural landscape. This Norton Critical Edition is
based on David Frye's new translation. It is accompanied by Ilan
Stavan's introduction, the translator's preface, the editor's
detailed explanatory annotations, and a map tracing Cabeza de
Vaca's journey from Florida to California. "Alternative Narratives
and Sequels" enriches the reader's understanding of and
appreciation for Cabeza de Vaca's chronicle, which can be read both
as historical record and as fiction (Cabeza de Vaca having written
his account years after the events took place). Gonzalo Fernandez
de Oviedo y Valdez's General and Natural History of the Indies
(1535) provides a different account of the same journey, while
sequels can be found in a 1539 letter from the Viceroy of New Spain
to the Emperor and in Fray Marcos de Niza's Relacion on the
Discovery of the Kingdom of Cibola (1539). The Spanish explorers,
soldiers, and missionaries of the period saw the New World as a
place of enchantment, riches, and opportunity. This spirit is
captured in "Contexts" with documents including a 1493 letter from
Christopher Columbus to a potential benefactor of his future
travels; Hernan Cortes's 1520 letter from Mexico; and an excerpt
from Fray Bartolome's Brief Account of the Destruction of the
Indies (1542). A selection from Miguel Leon Portilla's Broken
Spears provides readers with the viewpoint of the vanquished.
"Criticism" includes five major assessments of Chronicle of the
Narvaez Expedition spanning eighty years. Contributors include
Morris Bishop, Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz, Paul
Schneider, Andres Resendez, and Beatriz Rivera-Barnes. A
Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index are also included.
An incisive, thought-provoking, and timely meditation, at once
panoramic and synoptic, on American literature for an age of
xenophobia, heightened nationalism, and economic disparity. The
distinguished cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the nation's
identity through the prism of its books, from the indigenous past
to the early settlers, the colonial period, the age of
independence, its ascendance as a global power, and its shallow,
fracturing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The central motives
that make the United States a flawed experiment-its celebration of
do-it-yourself individualism, its purported exceptionalism, and its
constitutional government based on checks and balances-are explored
through canonical works like Mark Twain's The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Emily Dickinson's
poetry, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the work of
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison, and
immigrant voices such as those of Americo Paredes, Henry Roth, Saul
Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jhumpa Lahiri, and others. This is
literary criticism at its best-informed: broad-ranged yet pungent
and uncompromising.
From the mean streets of the barrio to the house on Mango Street,
from the Mambo Kings to the Garcia Girls, the authors who
contribute to this volume transport us across geographies and
through cultures in an attempt to articulate the joys, struggles,
defeats, and triumphs of the Latino experience in the United
States. Growing Up Latino offers, for the first time, a
comprehensive collection of classic and recent Latino writing in
English, converging in sometimes shocking, often funny, and always
stirring memoirs and stories. Religion, sex, love, language, and
family are some of the topics explored in this compelling anthology
of fiction and nonfiction. With its laughter and tears, its beauty
and power, it is a thoroughly enjoyable book and an unforgettable
contribution to the Latino tradition of letters. This diverse
collection shatters the myth of a singular U.S.- Latino experience,
proving the existence of a rich tradition whose writers, active for
more than forty years, are only now being recognized by a rapidly
growing audience.
Poetry. Fiction. Essays. Latino/Latina Studies. This milestone
collection gathers unpublished stories, essays, letters, poems and
a teleplay written by Acosta (1935-1974), the Chicano attorney,
political activist and writer, between the early 1960s and shortly
before his mysterious disappearance in Mexico in 1974.
2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the
complete Don Quixote of La Mancha-an ageless masterpiece that is
unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to
turn Emma Bovary into "a knight in skirts". Freud studied Quixote's
psyche. Twain was fascinated by it, as were Kafka, Picasso,
Nabokov, Borges and Welles. The novel has spawned ballets and
operas, poems and plays, films and video games, and even shapes the
identities of nations. In Quixote, Ilan Stavans, one of today's
pre-eminent cultural commentators, explores these many
manifestations. Training his eye on the tumultuous struggle between
logic and dreams, he reveals the ways in which a work of literature
is a living thing that influences and is influenced by the world
around it.
"Latino USA" represents the culmination of Ilan Stavans' lifelong
determination to meet the challenges of capturing the joys,
nuances, and multiple dimensions of Latino culture within the
context of the English language. In this cartoon history of
Latinos, Stavans also seeks to combine the solemnity of so-called
"serious literature" and history with the inherently theatrical and
humorous nature of the comics.
Stavans represents Hispanic civilization as a fiesta of types,
archetypes, and stereotypes. These multiple, at times contradictory
voices, each narrating various episodes of Latino history from a
unique perspective, combine to create a carnivalesque rhythm, which
is democratic and impartial. "Latino USA," like the history it so
entertainingly relates, is a dazzling kaleidoscope of irreverence,
wit, subversion, anarchy, politics, humanism, celebration, and
serious and responsible history.
To mark the centennial of the birth of Isaac Bashevis Singer, The
Library of America presents a major celebration of Singer's
achievement, beginning with "Gimpel the Fool" and concluding with
"The Death of Methuselah."
Yiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English-at various points in Ilan Stavans's life, each of these has been his primary language. In this rich memoir, the linguistic chameleon outlines his remarkable cultural heritage from his birth in politically fragile Mexico, through his years as a student activist and young Zionist in Israel, to his present career as a noted and controversial academic and writer.
Along the way, Stavans introduces readers to some of the remarkable members of his family-his brother, a musical wunderkind; his father, a Mexican soap opera star; his grandmother, who arrived in Mexico from Eastern Europe in 1929 and wrote her own autobiography. Masterfully weaving personal reminiscences with a provocative investigation into language acquisition and cultural code switching, On Borrowed Words is a compelling exploration of Stavans's search for his place in the world.
"An interweaving of longing and reemergence"
Originally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in
English in 2004, "The Letters that Never Came" is an
autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof's life
growing up in 1930s Uruguay as the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants
and, later, his twelve-year imprisonment during the military
dictatorship his country suffered.
Part I is a rich evocation of life in Montevideo in the mid-1930s
as seen through the eyes of young Moishe. Every day, Moishe's
father waits for the postman, hoping for news of his family, who
are prisoners of the Nazis. Interspersed among Moishe's
reminiscences are the letters those relatives might have
written--but never came.
In Part II, Moishe is imprisoned in the dungeons of the military
junta that governed Uruguay in the 1970s and 1980s. Tortured and
starving, he takes refuge in the world of his imagination,
composing another letter that never came--a letter to his father
that embodies his own quest for identity.
Part III is largely a meditation on the redemptive power of the
word, real and imagined. This poignant, humane work, as Uruguayan
and Jewish as it is universal, links the cruelty of the Holocaust
to that of the Uruguayan military and the resistance of Hitler's
victims to his own.
For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from
Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German,
Georgian, and other languages. His versions of Borges, Neruda, Sor
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Ferreira Gullar, Raúl Zurita, and dozens
of others have become classics. This volume, which includes poems
from more than forty poets from all over the world, is testimony to
a life dedicated to the pursuit of beauty through poetry in
different languages.
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