Twenty-five years ago, Ilan Stavans published his first book, "Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage" (1993). Since then, Stavans has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and praised in equal measure, a commanding if contested intellectual whose work as a cultural critic has been influential in the fields of Latino and Jewish studies, politics, immigration, religion, language, and identity. He can be credited for bringing attention to Jewish Latin America and issues like Spanglish, he has been instrumental in shaping a certain view of Latino Studies in universities across the United States as well abroad, he has anthologized much of Latino and Latin American Jewish literature and he has engaged in contemporary pop culture via the graphic novel. He was the host of a PBS show called "Conversations with Ilan Stavans", and has had his fiction adapted into the stage and the big screen. The man, as one critic stated, clearly has energy to burn and it does not appear to be abating. This collection celebrates twenty-five years of Stavans’s work with essays that describe the good and the bad, the inspired and the pedestrian, the worthwhile and the questionable.
Ilan Stavans: "Our meturgeman par excellence"
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págs. 7-17
"El iluminado": Ilan Stavans and the incongruity of the antihero
págs. 18-26
Life, death, and apotheosis of words: DIC·TION·AR·Y DAYS
págs. 27-31
Cave paintings: Cervantes, Turbans, and Heresy
págs. 32-41
Freedom to pursue the impossible dream: Ilan Stavans and "Don Quixote"
págs. 42-49
págs. 50-73
págs. 74-91
págs. 92-102
“A world defined by immigration”: ambivalence, translationality, and mestizaje in Ilan Stavans
págs. 103-112
págs. 113-120
Returning borrowed words: translation and Ilan Stavans’s contribution to the English language
págs. 121-130
págs. 131-145
Introductions: Ilan Stavans and the “Jewish Latin America” series
págs. 146-155
págs. 156-166
A game of mirrors: the conversations of Ilan Stavans
págs. 167-175
págs. 176-185
Mexican bandit or the last intellectual?: Ilan Stavans’s notorious raid on the Chicano literary canon
págs. 186-196
Poetry and music: interview with Ilan Stavans
págs. 197-204
Crossing borders: Ilan Stavans’s adventures on stage with double edge theatre
págs. 205-209
págs. 210-219
págs. 220-222
Epilogue: seven lies about Ilan Stavans
págs. 223-224
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