Most Popular Books by Ilan Stavans

En tiempos de las redes sociales, la conversacion es un arte en decadencia. A contrapelo de la celeridad contemporanea, Ilan Stavans y Juan Villoro se han servido de internet para dialogar dilatadamente, como lo hubieran hecho en un cafe, explorando su pasion comun por la literatura y las circunstancias en que ocurre. Las diferencias de formacion y el hecho de que los autores se hubiesen frecuentado poco, permitio que el intercambio fuera un sorprendente proceso de conocimiento mutuo.

This collection presents a series of autobiographical meditations by Ilan Stavans on how language defines every aspect of our life.

La historia de cómo García Márquez se convirtió en uno de los escritores más importantes de la historia.

"The Hispanic Malcolm X. Writer. Activist. Civil rights attorney. Contemporary of Hunter S. Thompson''s. Man prone to excesses. Man of vision. All describe Oscar "Zeta" Acosta. A leading figure in the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, he seemed to be everywhere and have a profound influence on everyone in El Movimiento. In 1974, after a last phone call to his son, Acosta disappeared in the Mexican state of Mazatlan." "Bandido reconstructs - even reinvents - the man behind the myth. Part biographical appraisal, part reflection on the legacy of the civil rights era, Bandido is an opportunity to understand the challenges and pitfalls Latinos face in finding a place of their own in America." --Book Jacket.

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 whose key players rival movie stars in popularity and influence. For many Latinos, especially those who emigrated to the United States, it is the game of choice. While Latino players are still not a major force in U.S. soccer, Latino fans certainly are, comprising, by one estimate, 45 percent of Major League Soccer attendees. Seeking to explain the allure and the influence of soccer among Latinos, particularly those living in the United States, Fútbol offers a collection of essays that treat the game from a wide variety of perspectives. These essays—including reminiscences and impressionistic assessments—touch on topics as diverse as politics, religion, sociology, marketing, athletics, and gender relations as they attempt to contextualize soccer in the Latino community.

Producto de muchos años de lectura, apreciación y asimilación del arte hispánico, este excelente volumen reúne las disquisiciones del autor en torno a la idiosincracia latina dentro del ámbito anglosajón, particularmente el estadounidense, y sus tentáculos a lo largo y ancho de todas las Américas. La intensa interacción entre las culturas sajona y latina, cuyo principal escenario-pero no el único-es el río Grande, proporciona material abundante para analizar las conductas de los diversos grupos étnicos que conviven cotidianamente en los Estados Unidos. Las relaciones inequitativas de poder que por lo general producen los asiáticos y latinos son el tema de numerosas obras literarias y fílmicas a las que el autor recurre para tocar los distintos ángulos del tema central. Esta obra memorable es el resultado de una vida compartida en dos ámbitos culturales más que de un trabajo premeditado y regular de investigación, Stavans, a quien los medios de comunicación norteamericanos han descrito como "un Alexis de Tocqueville moderno" y "un ensayista de la más fina calidad intelectual en la línea de Edmund Wilson y Octavio Paz". Ilán Stavans nació en México, en 1961. Cursó estudios de posgrado en la Universidad de Columbia, y ahora tiene la cátedra Lewis-Sebring de cultura latina y latinoamericana en Amherst College. Colabora con artículos y reseñas en diversas publiciones periódicas estadounidenses, como The Washington Post, The New York Times y The Nation, entre muchas otras. En 1992 obtuvo el Premio Latino de Literatura; en 1994 fue nominado para el National Book Critics Circle Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing; y en 1998 obtuvo la beca Guggenheim. Su vasta obra, que incluye las colecciones de ensayo Art and Anger y The Riddle of Cantinflas, así como la autobiografía On Borrowed Words, ha sido traducida a media docena de lenguas.

Trata de questões como linguagem e identidade, cultura e globalização. Explora o tema da cultura hispano-americana e o idioma "spanglish", para demonstrar como a população latin tornou-se um influência na literatura, artes, música e política dos Estados Unidos.

A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world. The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha—an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into “a knight in skirts.” Freud studied Quixote’s psyche. Mark Twain was fascinated by it, as were Kafka, Picasso, Nabokov, Borges, and Orson Welles. The novel has spawned ballets and operas, poems and plays, movies and video games, and even shapes the identities of entire nations. Spain uses it as a sort of constitution and travel guide; and the Americas were conquered, then sought their independence, with the knight as a role model. In Quixote, Ilan Stavans, one of today’s preeminent 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.

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 religious ceremony that involved taking the hallucinogen ayahuasca. Even though he considered himself a skeptic and a rational intellectual, as someone whose worldview was defined by his education and his heritage as a Mexican Jew, Stavans found that the ritual pushed him to reconsider many of his basic understandings, including his perceptions of indigenous cultures in Latin America, as well as his career as teacher, thinker, and artist. This one-act play is delivered in the form of a lecture that mimics the author''s startling spiritual journey. The book includes twenty-five bold images, in color and black and white, which capture the author''s performance of the play.

Pairs riddles in English and Spanish with a set of cards for the Mexican board game known as "Loterâia" designed by a contemporary Mexican American artist.

Assistera-on à une « latinisation » des États-Unis au XXIe siècle ? Qui sont ces Latinos - Mexicains, Caribéens, Centro-américains et Sud-américains - dont la présence est toujours plus nombreuse sur le territoire états-unien ? En quoi les flux migratoires d''aujourd''hui sont-ils fondamentalement différents de ceux du passé ? De quels changements culturels, linguistiques, politiques les Latinos sont-ils porteurs ? Pourraient-ils aller jusqu''à provoquer une métamorphose des structures sociales et des logiques d''intégration en vigueur aux États-Unis ? Quelle importance attribuer à la thèse du politologue conservateur Samuel Huntington, selon laquelle les Latinos vont fatalement provoquer un conflit, « langue contre langue » et « culture contre culture », au sein de la nation états-unienne ? Quels arguments lui opposent les partisans d''une intégration réussie ? Que peut-on d''ailleurs entendre par ce terme dans le contexte états-unien et dans le nouveau contexte transnational au sein des Amériques ? Sans prétendre à une quelconque exhaustivité, cet ouvrage tente de répondre à ces questions et à d''autres qui surgissent du débat public et des recherches universitaires. Il est le premier dans l''espace francophone à les approcher de façon résolument pluri et inter-disciplinaire : parmi les collaborateurs du volume on trouve des politologues, des sociologues, des spécialistes de langue, de littérature et de création culturelle. Parmi eux, trois chercheurs mexicains (l''un vivant en France, l''autre au Mexique, le troisième aux États-Unis), un Mexicain Américain né aux États-Unis, trois Françaises et un États-Unien vivant en France. Tous ont participé à Biarritz, en septembre-octobre 2003, au Forum « Les Latinos aux USA » organisé par l''IHEAL (Institut des Hautes Études de l''Amérique Latine/Sorbonne Nouvelle), avec le concours du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, dans le cadre de La Cita, 12e festival des cinémas et des cultures d''Amérique latine.

En esta obra Il n Stavans aborda, de manera innovadora, la antiqu sima discusi n de la intertextualidad de las obras literarias. Usando ejemplos correctos, Stavans nos muestra que todo libro es una reinterpretaci n de otros. de este modo, una creaci n escrita se convierte en un peque o universo donde convive una multiplicidad de mundos narrados.

In its four volumes, 650 entries, 2000 pages and 1.2 million words, Encyclopedia Latina explores every aspect of Latino life in America from a myriad of perspectives, spanning the arts, media, cuisine, government and politics, science and technology, business, health, and sports, among others. While the collection represents an important cultural point of reference and source of pride for Latino youth, it will also serve the interests of an increasingly diverse American population who can all relate to the themes and stories included in this resource.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899--1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, philosophical ideas, and myriad other topics. This Very Short Introduction gives an engaging overview of Borges''s life and the major themes of his oeuvre. Ilan Stavans places Borges in the context of tango and gaucho literature and follows his transformation into an explorer of time and metaphysical dimensions across cultures. As an inveterate reader of Cervantes, Shakespeare, Flaubert, Coleridge, and The Arabian Nights, Borges has become closely associated with the book as an object of knowledge and of the imagination. Stavans demonstrates how Borges''s evolution as a writer allowed him to revolutionize contemporary literature and thought in fundamental ways through such works as Ficciones, Other Inquisitions, and Labyrinths, and shows how his career redefined Latin American as well as global literature.

"At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Once, Buenos Aires. The explosion left eighty-five people dead and over three hundred wounded. Originally published amid widespread controversy, Once@9:53am: Terror en Buenos Aires imagines the two hours before the attack through the popular format of the fotonovela. At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Once, Buenos Aires. The explosion left eighty-five people dead and over three hundred wounded. Originally published amid widespread controversy, Once@9:53am: Terror en Buenos Aires imagines the two hours before the attack through the popular format of the fotonovela. Part documentary, part fiction, this vivid retelling of Argentina''s deadliest bombing depicts a vibrant, complex urban community in the hours before its identity was forever changed. This expanded English edition includes a new essay by Ilan Stavans detailing the aftermath of the attack and the faulty investigations that have yet to yield any arrests or reach resolution."--Provided by publisher.

Producto de muchos aos de lectura, apreciacin y asimilacin del arte hispnico, este excelente volumen rene las disquisiciones del autor en torno a la idiosincrasia latina en el mbito anglosajn, particularmente estadunidense, y sus tentculos a lo largo y ancho de todas las Amricas. Stavans incluye una cronologa de hechos histricos y de creacin de obras importantes de arte y la literatura latinas al norte del ro Bravo, adems, de una bibliografa y una filmografa completas sobre el tema.

A bilingual collection of poems, stories, and other writings which celebrates diversity among Latinos.