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Ernesto Galarza
In his gripping autobiography, Galarza tells the story of his journey from a tiny village during the Mexican revolution to the barrio's of Sacramento, offering invaluable insight to the plight…
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Ilan Stavans
When a little boy hears Abuela use a secret language, he asks his mother about it and learns the history of Spanish Jews which inspires him to learn Ladino.
Nezahualcoyotl
From award-winning author, editor, and translator Ilan Stavans comes a one-of-a-kind retelling of a legendary Aztec ruler's timeless verses.
A king, a warrior, and a poet, Nezahualcyotl was a revolutionary…
Wendy Barker
Spanning more than three decades of a life well-lived, Wendy Barker's collected poems convey her encounters with the natural world, her reactions to contemporary social problems, and her experiences in…
Collects the challenging and stimulating writing of Ilan Stavans into one essential volume, examining the voice of the Spanish-speaking cultures in the US.
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For almost twenty years, Ilan Stavans described by the Washington Post as Latin America’s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast has interviewed path-breaking intellectuals and artists in…
This collection presents a series of autobiographical meditations by Ilan Stavans on how language defines every aspect of our life.
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The first anthology of its kind, I Am of the Tribe of Judah brings together poetry from the Mexican border to the tip of South America. Originally written in Spanish…
Pablo Neruda,Ilan Stavans
A career-spanning volume charting the Nobel laureate’s work in the ode form
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Lalo Alcaraz, Ilan Stavans, Ilan Stavans
An irreverent and kaleidoscopic cartoon history of Latino life, culture, and politics, now revised and updated for its twenty-fifth anniversary
Steven Kellman
A Study of the Work of Ilan Stavans
Miguel de Cervantes
After a lifetime of reading books on chivalry in his library, Don Quixote embarks on a comedic journey through medieval Spain with his servant Sancho Panza, in a series of…
Juan Gelman, Ilan Stavans, Ilya Kaminsky
One of Latin American's most important poets of the twentieth century, Juan Gelman (1930-2014 spent much of his life in exile from his native Argentina during the Dirty War. A…
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..
Includes an English translation of Vasconcelos’ Mestizaje from his The cosmic race and his lecture The race problem in Latin America, one of three Harris Foundation lectures originally delivered at…
Spanglish-a hybrid of Spanish and English-is intricately interwoven with the history and culture of Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States.
In what way is the Spanish language helping or impeding that assimilation? This volume features the most significant articles including peer-review essays, interviews, and reviews to bring together the best…
Offers a gamut of essays on Latina writers from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including feminism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, historicism, gender, border, linguistic, and pan-American studies. This volume also features a…
Section two, Testimonios, takes careful consideration of lives affected by the border, either as a finite place, alternate universe, or the framework of the border as a state-of-mind, through various…
This volume compiled by Ilan Stavans examines the importance of ritual and celebration and the quinceanera celebration’s growing social importance to in the Latino community, particularly in the United States…
The first part, Considerations offers critical assessments of Chavez’s life that utilize different approaches to understanding his life, including cultural studies critiques, historical narrative that provide invaluable context, and even…
Ilan Stavans has amassed a collection of cutting-edge articles that inform readers about how Latinos navigate both the mainstream medical arena and culturally specific healing traditions. This work highlights the…
The essays found in Telenovelas covers a broad view of the genre, television’s impact in Latino culture, as well as more in-depth discussions of specific telenovelas throughout the Spanish-speaking television…
This insightful collection documents Latinos in baseball from an interdisciplinary perspective. From the late, great Roberto Clemente, to Giants legend Juan Marichal to Pedro Martinez, Manny Ramirez, Sammy Sosa, Alex…
This insightful compilation offers interdisciplinary views on soccer among Latinos. In contrast with its relative lack of popularity in the United States, elsewhere, professional soccer is a hugely popular sport…
Explores Borges’ infatuation with Jewish history and culture.
A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.
Explores the human need to seize upon the meaning of things, and the attempt to catalogue existence with meaningful lexical signals called words . This title follows a history of…
This groundbreaking, eclectic book of readings, edited by Ilan Stavans, described by The Washington Post as one of our foremost cultural critics, offers a sideboard of the ups and downs…
Offers an insight into Cortazar’s short fiction, 10 collections in all, showing Cortazar’s relationship to other writers of this genre, Garcia Marquez, Fuentes and Borges, and his place in Latin…
Is there such a thing as a modern Jewish literary tradition, one navigating across linguistic and national lines? If so, how should one define it? This volume explores the problems…
Inspired by a stirring e-mail exchange with his father, an award-winning essayist and cultural commentator decided to revisit his hometown, Mexico City, accompanied by a tour guide. Return to Centro…
It is assumed that the literary figures on one side of the global have had little interest in the work of their counterparts. This book dispels this notion by showing…
Offers a poetic exploration - across time, space, and language, real as well as metaphorical - of the US-Mexican wall dividing the two civilizations, of similar walls (Jerusalem, China, Berlin…
A international collection of poems celebrating the beauty of poetry in different languages.
This groundbreaking bilingual anthology, carefully designed for middle readers, demonstrates the energy, creativity, and diversity of the fastest-growing minority group in America. Wachale! (Spanglish for watch out! ) includes folk…
After a chance meeting with a shaman in Colombia, Ilan Stavans, the highly regarded literary scholar, found himself in the Amazon rainforest. He had reluctantly agreed to participate in a…
El Paso-born activist Oscar Zeta Acosta became a leading figure in the Chicano rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, winning landmark civil rights cases as an attorney. Through interviews…
Set mainly in California’s Central Valley, Manuel Munoz’s collection of stories goes beyond the traditional family myths and narratives of Chicano literature and explores, instead, the constant struggle of characters…
Offers a vista of Jewish-Hispanic relations. This work features the novella Morirse esta en hebreo, which is a meditation on continuity and tradition among Mexican Jews that takes place just…
Since his first publication in 1942, Luis Leal has likely done more than any other writer or scholar to foster a critical appreciation of Mexican, Chicano, and Latin American literature…
Contains tales that look at what it means to be Jewish in the Hispanic world - a world in which spirituality is often exercised outside the realm of orthodoxy. This…
Contains the stories Morirse esta en hebreo , Xerox Man and The Disappearance .
In this small, memorable meditation on Octavio Paz as a thinker and man of action, Ilan Stavans - described by the New York Times as the czar of Latino culture…
