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  • A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States

    A New York Times Best Seller Enough with the dead white men Forget what you learned in school Ever since Columbus--who was probably a converted Jew--"discovered" the New World, the powerful and privileged have usurped American history. The true story of the United States...
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  • A Pre-Columbian Bestiary: Fantastic Creatures of Indigenous Latin America by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    A Pre-Columbian Bestiary: Fantastic Creatures of Indigenous Latin America

    An encyclopedic collaboration between award-winning Mexican American scholar Ilan Stavans and illustrator Eko, A Pre-Columbian Bestiary features lively and informative descriptions of forty-six religious, mythical, and imaginary creatures from the Nahua, Aztec, Maya, Tabasco, Inca, Aymara, and other cultures of Latin America.From the siren-like...
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  • And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the Covid-19 Pandemic by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the Covid-19 Pandemic

    In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.As our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic,...
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  • And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the Covid-19 Pandemic by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the Covid-19 Pandemic

    As our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, writers offer a powerful antidote to the fearful confines of isolation: a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own. In Mauritius, a journalist contends with denialism and mourns the last days...
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  • Angelitos: A Graphic Novel by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Angelitos: A Graphic Novel

    From internationally renowned Ilan Stavans, in collaboration with award-winning illustrator Santiago Cohen, comes Angelitos: A Graphic Novel, an explosive new graphic novel about a college student and his interactions with Padre Chinchachoma, a charismatic Catholic priest who devotes himself to rescuing homeless children in...
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  • Borges, the Jew by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Borges, the Jew

    Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion categoryA Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2016In this volume, award-winning cultural critic and controversial public intellectual Ilan Stavans focuses his attention on Jorge Luis Borges's fascination with Jewish culture. Despite...
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  • César Chávez by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    César Chávez

    Labor leader, social justice advocate, Chicano leader, and humanitarian are only some of the multifaceted renderings of César Chávez. Ilan Stavans has compiled essays and first-person narratives that capture the multiple dimensions of this storied figure. To that end, Stavans's collection of timely articles...
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  • Fútbol by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Fútbol

    In contrast with its relative lack of popularity in the United States, elsewhere, professional soccer is a hugely popular sport whose key players rival movie stars in popularity and influence. For many Latinos, especially those who emigrated to the United States, it is the...
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  • Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years

    The captivating life and career of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist by ILan Stavans, one of the world's most esteemed thinkers and writers on Latin American literature This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of...
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  • How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

    Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These...
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  • How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

    Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These...
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  • I Love My Selfie by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    I Love My Selfie

    What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical and cultural roots by discussing everything from Greek mythology and Shakespeare to Andy Warhol, James Franco, and Pope Francis. He sees selfies as...
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  • Immigration by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Immigration

    Immigration is a topic on the minds of a large portion of Americans. In 2006, a series of large marches and political debates shook the nation to the core. With the 2008 presidential campaign under way, the controversy is alive and well. However, it...
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  • Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction

    The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual and...
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  • José Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    José Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race

    Mexican educator and thinker Jose Vasconcelos is to Latinos what W.E.B. Du Bois is to African Americans--a controversial scholar who fostered an alternative view of the future. In Josè Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race, his influential 1925 essay, "Mestizaje" key to understanding the role...
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  • Latino Usa, Revised Edition: A Cartoon History by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Latino Usa, Revised Edition: A Cartoon History

    Latino USA represents the culmination of Ilan Stavans's 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 seeks to combine the solemnity...
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  • Latino USA: A Cartoon History by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Latino USA: A Cartoon History

    An irreverent and kaleidoscopic cartoon history of Latino life, culture, and politics, now revised and updated for its twenty-fifth anniversary In Latino USA, Latin American and Latino scholar Ilan Stavans captures the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions of Latino culture within the context of...
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  • Latinos in the United States: What Everyone Needs to Know by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Latinos in the United States: What Everyone Needs to Know

    As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in the U.S. represent the second-largest concentration of Hispanic people in the entire world, after Mexico. Needless to say, the population of Latinos in the U.S. is causing...
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  • Love and Language by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Love and Language

    "It's crucial to keep in mind that our understanding of love is in constant flux and that history is nothing but a sideboard of possibilities."--Ilan Stavans Our understanding of love today is not the same as the one espoused by Plato in the fourth...
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  • Mexican-American Cuisine by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Mexican-American Cuisine

    Defining Mexican-American food is difficult due to its incredibly diverse roots and traditions. This unique style of cuisine varies significantly from Mexican and Latin American cuisines, fusing Native American and Hispanic influences stemming from three centuries of first Spanish and later Mexican rule. In...
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  • Mr. Spic Goes to Washington by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Mr. Spic Goes to Washington

    In the face of social inequalities, sometimes strength for mobilization can be found through laughter. It is this ethos that Ilan Stavans employs in this politically minded graphic novel. Weaving humor with social commentary, Stavans tells a tale of a Latino man taking Los...
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  • On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language

    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...
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  • On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language

    Finalist for the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Essay categoryFrom award-winning, internationally known scholar and translator Ilan Stavans comes On Self-Translation, a collection of essays and conversations on language in its multifaceted forms. Stavans discusses the way syntax is...
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  • Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies

    At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the Latino minority, the biggest and fastest growing in the United States, is at a crossroads. Is assimilation taking place in comparable ways to previous immigrant groups? Are the links to the countries...
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  • Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America

    Writers from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, and other countries represent an ethnically diverse culture with roots in eastern Europe as well as Spain. . . . The anthology includes tales by such masters as Alberto Gerchunoff, . . . a large number...
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  • Popol Vuh: A Retelling by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Popol Vuh: A Retelling

    An inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Maya myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans, gorgeously illustrated by Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios and introduced by renowned author, diplomat, and environmental activist Homero Aridjis.The archetypal creation story of...
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  • Quinceañera by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Quinceañera

    This volume compiled by Ilan Stavans examines the importance of ritual and celebration and the quinceañera celebration's growing social importance to in the Latino community, particularly in the United States. The essays explore the quinceañera and the coming-of-age ritual from various angles. Prior to...
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  • Sabor Jud?: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Sabor Jud?: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook

    Sabor Judio celebrates the delicious fusion of two culinary traditions: Jewish and Mexican. Written with joy and verve, Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle's lavishly illustrated cookbook demonstrates how cooking and eating connect the Jewish-Mexicans across places and generations. Featuring one hundred deeply personal recipes...
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  • Selected Translations: 2000-2020 by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Selected Translations: 2000-2020

    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 In s de la Cruz, Ferreira Gullar, Ra l Zurita, and dozens of others have become...
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  • Singer's Typewriter and Mine: Reflections on Jewish Culture by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Singer's Typewriter and Mine: Reflections on Jewish Culture

    A cultural critic of extraordinary erudition, encyclopedic knowledge, and boundless curiosity, Ilan Stavans, an Ashkenazic Jew who grew up in Mexico, negotiates wildly varied topics as effortlessly and deftly as he manages the multiple perspectives of a dual national, religious, and ethnic identity. In...
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  • Sor Juana: Or, the Persistence of Pop by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Sor Juana: Or, the Persistence of Pop

    A sixteenth-century Mexican nun, Sor Juana In s de la Cruz, has become one of the most rebellious and lasting icons in modern times, on par with Mahatma Gandhi, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and Nelson Mandela. Referenced in ranchera, tejana, and hip-hop lyrics, and celebrated...
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  • Spanglish by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Spanglish

    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. With deep roots that trace back to the U.S. annexation of Mexican territories in the early to mid-19th century,...
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  • Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language

    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...
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  • Telenovelas by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    Telenovelas

    Drama! Excess! Men in bee suits! Often erroneously compared to soap operas of the United States, outside of the necessary and sometimes fantastical dramatic story arc, however, the telenovela differs greatly from U.S. soap operas and have regional and cultural distinctions throughout Latin America....
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  • The Fsg Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    The Fsg Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology

    A comprehensive, multi-lingual anthology of 20th-century Latin American Poetry in both Spanish and Portuguese. During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations. From Rub n Dar o's quest to renew the Spanish language to C sar Vallejo's linking of...
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  • The Hispanic Condition: The Power of a People by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    The Hispanic Condition: The Power of a People

    In The Hispanic Condition, Ilan Stavans offers a subtle and insightful meditation on Hispanic society in the United States. A native of Mexico, Stavans has emerged as one of the most distinguished Latin American writers of our time, an award-winning novelist and critic praised...
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  • The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories

    In this remarkably wide-ranging anthology, Ilan Stavans has collected the work of more than fifty notable Jewish writers from around the globe, weaving these diverse viewpoints and voices into a rich portrait of Jewish literary tradition. The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories takes us...
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  • The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language

    A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and more from Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln to Henry Roth and Zora Neale Hurston, from George Carlin...
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  • The Return of Carvajal: A Mystery by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    The Return of Carvajal: A Mystery

    In 2017, the New York Times announced that the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal the Younger had been rediscovered. Considered the first autobiography by a Jew in the Americas, the book had been stolen decades earlier from Mexico's National Archives. Here, Ilan Stavans...
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  • The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture

    Ilan Stavans's collection of essays on kitsch and high art in the Americas makes a return with thirteen new colorful conversations that deliver Stavans's trademark wit and provocative analysis. "A Dream Act Deferred" discusses an issue that is at once and always topical in...
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  • The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America

    Jewish Book Council Natan Notable Book 2020 Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in the region, whose roots date back to Christopher...
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  • The Wall by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    The Wall

    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 civilizations, of similar walls (Jerusalem, China, Berlin, Warsaw, etc.) in history, and of the act of separating people by ideology, class, race, and...
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  • What Remains: The Suitcases of Charles F. at Willard State Hospital by Stavans, Ilan
    Ilan Stavans

    What Remains: The Suitcases of Charles F. at Willard State Hospital

    After the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center on New York's Seneca Lake in 1995, more than four hundred abandoned suitcases were discovered in its attic, containing thousands of personal possessions belonging to former patients. Three of the suitcases were owned by Charles F., an...
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