The Essential Ilan Stavans

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Author:

Stavans, Ilan

ISBN:

978-0-415-92753-6

Publication Date:

Sep 2000

Publisher:

Routledge

Book Format:

Hardback

List Price:

USD $155.00

Book Description:

Here, Ilan Stavans, one of the foremost Latino scholars, collects his best essays into one volume. As a Mexican Jew whose native languages are Yiddish and Spanish, Stavans writes in English to limn the tensions, contradictions, and possibilities within the compex notion of a multi-cultural identity.

Book Details

Pages:	362
Detailed Subjects:	Literary Collections / Essays
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	6.045 x 9.165 x 1.17 Inches
Book Weight:	1.3 Pounds

Author Biography

Stavans, Ilan (Author)

Ilan Stavans (born Ilan Stavchansky on April 7, 1961, in Mexico City) is a Mexican-American, essayist. He is the author of "The Hispanic Condition", "The Riddle of Cantinflas", and "The One-Handed Pianist & Other Stories" as well as the editor of "The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories" and a dictionary of Spanglish, among other volumes. He has been a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Latino Literature Prize, among other honors. He teaches at Amherst College.

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