The Restless Ilan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780822965855)

This is the first book-length study of one of the most prominent and prolific Latino academics, Ilan Stavans. He has written extensively on Latino culture, Jewish culture, dictionaries, immigration, language, Spanglish, soccer, translation, travel, selfies, and God. The Restless Ilan Stavans surveys his interests, achievements, and flaws while he is still in the midst of an extraordinarily productive career. A native of Mexico who became a U.S. citizen, he is an outsider to both the Chicano community that often resents him as an interloper and the American Jewish community that he, who grew up speaking Yiddish in Mexico City, often chides. The book examines his unlikely rise to prominence within the context of the spread of multiculturalism as a seminal principle within American culture. A self-proclaimed cosmopolitan who rejects borders, Stavans is both insider and outsider to the myriad of subjects he approaches.

Author: Steven Kellman
ISBN-10: 0822965852
ISBN-13: 9780822965855
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2019
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.70d