Stavans, Ilan

The Hispanic condition : reflections on culture and identity in America by Ilan Stavans ( Book )
21 editions published between 1994 and 2001 in English and Spanish and held by 1,505 libraries worldwide

The poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda ( Book )
4 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in English and held by 1,436 libraries worldwide
A collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning author features translations, many of them specially commissioned, of almost six hundred works.

Collected stories : Gimpel the fool to the Letter writer by Isaac Bashevis Singer ( Book )
25 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 1,215 libraries worldwide
Presents a collection of fifty-four short stories, including "Gimpel the Fool," "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," and "The Mirror."

The Norton anthology of Latino literature ( Book )
3 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 1,156 libraries worldwide
Includes the work of 201 Latino writers from the Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and Dominican American traditions, as well as from the traditions of other Spanish-speaking countries. It traces five centuries of writing, from letters to the Spanish crown by sixteenth-century conquistadors to the cutting-edge expressions of twenty-first-century cartoonistas and artists of reggaetón.

Growing up Latino : memoirs and stories ( Book )
5 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 1,128 libraries worldwide
A comprehensive collection of Latino writing of fiction and nonfiction works in English.

The riddle of Cantinflas essays on Hispanic popular culture by Ilan Stavans ( Book )
7 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 1,002 libraries worldwide
From one of our foremost cultural critics comes a provocative collection of essays on politics and popular culture in Mexico and the Hispanic community in the United States. Ilan Stavans examines the delightful if torturous relationship between a Europeanized elite and the hybrid masses in a continent he sees as imprisoned in the labyrinth of identity. In "Santa Selena," for example, Stavans explores the beatification of the martyred Tejana singer in the context of American pop iconography. Similarly, Stavans's portraits of Jose Guadalupe Posada, Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo, Sandra Cisneros, Cantinflas, and Carlos Fuentes are less about these luminaries than about what people have turned them into. His search is not for the idol but for the idolater, and for ways in which technology and the media refurbish reality. This theme is nowhere more tangible than in the essay on Subcomandante Marcos as a postmodern incarnation of Che Guevara and Abimael Guzman, a mythical guerrillero whose best weapons were not the bayonet and hand grenade but the fax machine and e-mail.

The Oxford book of Jewish stories ( Book )
5 editions published between 1998 and 2009 in English and held by 983 libraries worldwide
An anthology of international Jewish fiction, featuring fifty stories by known and unknown writers. The story, The Zulu and the Zeide by Dan Jacobson is on the friendship in South Africa of a Jew and a black servant, while Family Ties by the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector is on Jewish identity.

Spanglish : the making of a new American language by Ilan Stavans ( Book )
10 editions published between 2003 and 2009 in English and held by 955 libraries worldwide
"Naturally controversial, Spanglish outrages English-language-only proponents, who seek to ban all languages other than English north of the Rio Grande. Equal in their outrage are Spanish-language purists and the supporters of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language in Madrid, as they deem Spanglish a cancer to their precious and centuries-old tongue. With elegance and erudition, Ilan Stavans reflects on the verbal rift that has given birth to Spanglish. He shows the historical tensions between the British and Spanish Empires, and how in 1588, with the sinking of the grand Spanish Armada, the rivalry between the two empires was solidified, and to this day, the differences in religion and culture continue their fight linguistically." "He ponders major historical events, such as the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty of 1848 and the Spanish-American War fifty years later, as agents of radical linguistic change, although, as he rightly states, it is in the second half of the twentieth century that Spanglish sped into our daily reality." "Stavans also points out the similarities and differences Spanglish has with Yiddish, so thoroughly blending into the American vocabulary, and the much-debated Ebonics, which made headlines in the early 1990s as a uniquely African American blend of proper English and urban slang. Ultimately, Stavans deftly proves that the manner in which a language stays alive is through mutation and that its survival doesn't depend on academies but on the average person's need for expression. This explains why it is increasingly used not only in kitchens and school but in music, TV, film, and literature, all expressions of the American collective soul." "Coupled with Stavan's insights is a substantial lexicon that shows the breadth and ingenuity of this growing vocabulary - at times, semantically obvious, then also surprisingly inventive. A translation into Spanglish of the first chapter of Don Quixote de La Mancha comes as a bonus. The added impact proves that Spanglish is more than a language - it is the perfect metaphor for an American that is a hybrid, a sum of parts."--BOOK JACKET.

The Oxford book of Latin American essays ( Book )
7 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 954 libraries worldwide
"Seventy-seven essays - only 12 by women - include works written in Spanish and Portuguese between 1849 (Bello) and 1994 (Subcomandante Marcos). The broad definition of essay allows for inclusion of pieces such as Borges' 'Pierre Menard,' usually defined as fiction. Historical introduction by Stavans; bio-bibliographical notes for authors. Many pieces translated expressly for this volume. Consistently high level of translation"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Encyclopedia Latina : history, culture, and society in the United States ( Book )
3 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 896 libraries worldwide