Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College.
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Sor Juana
Or, the Persistence of Pop
By Ilan Stavans
The University of Arizona Press
Sor Juana: Or, The Persistence of Pop encapsulates the life, times, and legacy of seventeenth-century Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Ilan Stavans provides a biographical and meditative picture of how popular perceptions of her life and work both shape and reflect Latinx culture.
Avenues of Translation
The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing
Edited by Regina Galasso and Evelyn Scaramella
Bucknell University Press
Avenues of Translation explores how translation perpetuates, diversifies, deepens, and expands the literary production of cities in their greater cultural context, and how translation shapes an understanding of and access to a city's past and present literary and cultural practices.
Yiddish South of the Border
An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing
Edited by Alan Astro; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press
Oy, Caramba!
An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America
Edited by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press
First published in 1994 as Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers, Ilan Stavans's classic anthology is expanded and updated in this new edition.
Secrecy and Deceit
The Religion of the Crypto-Jews
By David M. Gitlitz; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press
The Riddle of Cantinflas
Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture, Revised and Expanded Edition
By Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press
What is la hispanidad?
A conversation
By Ilan Stavans and Iván Jaksic
University of Texas Press
In a series of lively, provocative conversations, two prominent intellectuals debate the nature of “Hispanic-ness” as it has been expressed in Hispanic civilization around the world and across the centuries.