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The original essays in this set offer a time line of Garca Mrquez's achievements and consider his influence on a younger generation of writers. One essay combines biographical information with a broad overview of how One Hundred Years of Solitude was received by the literary world. Another also considers One Hundred Years, with the focus being the mystical character of Remedios. A final essay finishes this section with a comparison between Gar...

Ilan Stavans's collection of essays on kitsch and high art in the Americas makes a return with thirteen new colorful conversations that deliver Stavans's trademark wit and provocative analysis.

Although investigations of Hispanic popular culture were approached for decades as part of folklore studies, in recent years scholarly explorations have multiplied. What has been lacking is an overarching canvas that offers context for these studies. Ilan Stavans and Frederick Luis Aldama carry on a sustained, free-flowing, book-length conversation, concentrating on a wide range of pop manifestations and analysing them at length.

Although investigations of Hispanic popular culture were approached for decades as part of folklore studies, in recent years scholarly explorations have multiplied. What has been lacking is an overarching canvas that offers context for these studies. Ilan Stavans and Frederick Luis Aldama carry on a sustained, free-flowing, book-length conversation, concentrating on a wide range of pop manifestations and analysing them at length.

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He has written, edited, and translated many books, including Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, and The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature.Jorge J. E. Gracia is Samuel P. Capen Chair and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo....

2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha-an ageless masterpiece that is unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into "a knight in skirts". Freud studied Quixote's psyche. Twain was fascinated by it, as were Kafka, Picasso, Nabokov, Borges and Welles. The novel has spawned ballets and operas, poems and plays, films and video games, and even...

Originally published in the children's magazine Cricket, Golemito is the story of how a couple of Jewish boys in Mexico City confront bullying by creating a Golem, the mythical creature of Jewish folklore, originally made by Rabbi Lowe, known as the Maharal of Prague, in the sixteenth century, to defend the city's Jewish community from anti-Semitic attacks. Sammy Nurko, along with the story's narrator, conjures an Aztec version of the Golem th...

José Vasconcelos' influential 1925 essay, "Mestizaje"â€"key to understanding the role he played in the shaping of multiethnic Americaâ€"is here for the first time showcased and properly analyzed. Ilan Stavans insightfully and comprehensively examines the essay in biographical and historical context, and considers how many in the US, especially Chicanos during the civil rights era, used it as a platform for their political agenda.

Includes an English translation of Vasconcelos' "Mestizaje" from his The cosmic race and his lecture "The race problem in Latin America, " one of three Harris Foundation lectures originally delivered at the University of Chicago in 1926.

With the release of the census figures in 2000, Latino America wasanointed the future driving force of American culture. The emergence of Spanglish as a form of communication is one of the more influential markers of an America gone Latino. Spanish, present on this continent since the fifteenth century, when Iberian explorers sought to colonize territories in what are now Florida, New Mexico, Texas, and California, has become ubiquitous in the...

After a stirring e-mail exchange with his father, awardwinning essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans decided to do something bizarre: revisit his hometown, Mexico City, accompanied by a tourist guide. But rather than seeking his roots in the neighborhood where he grew up, he headed to the Centro Historico, the downtown area at the heart of the world's largest metropolis. It was there that conversos, the hidden Jews escaping the might ...

A comprehensive, multi-lingual anthology of 20th-century Latin American Poetry in both Spanish and Portuguese.During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations. From Rubén Darío's quest to renew the Spanish language to César Vallejo's linking of religion and politics, from Jorge Luis Borges's cosmopolitanism to Pablo Neruda's placement of poetry as uncompromising speaker for the downtrodden, and from ...

Set in the desert Southwest, a graphic novel that is equal parts mystery and history

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College.

The One-Handed Pianist "was published to acclaim in the early 1990's, with the two-part Spanish edition winning the Latino Literature Prize in 1989 and the Gamma Literature Prize in 1992. Its tales look at what it means to be Jewish in the Hispanic world--a world in which spirituality is often exercised outside the realm of orthodoxy. Stavans constructs fables that raise questions about ethnicity and community, even Stavans' person raises ques...

Surprising readers again and again, cultural critic Ilan Stavans creates a dialogue with Vernica Albin to explore love in its many variations.

En tiempos de las redes sociales la conversación es un arte en decadencia. Se trata de una pérdida significativa. Para Borges, la cultura se originó gracias a unos cuantos griegos conversadores. Quien dialoga se sirve de la inteligencia en forma libre y gratuita, aplaza las certezas, las opiniones definitivas, la voluntad de tener razón, y descubre con asombro ideas propias. A contrapelo de la celeridad contemporánea, Stavans y Villoro se han ...

Set mainly in California's Central Valley, Manuel Munoz's first collection of stories goes beyond the traditional family myths and narratives of Chicano literature and explores, instead, the constant struggle of characters against their physical and personal surroundings. Usually depicted as the lush and green world of rural quiet and tranquility, the Valley becomes the backdrop for the difficulties these characters confront as they try to mai...

Edited volume featuring North American writers discussing the literature of their Latin American colleagues, and vice versa.

2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha-an ageless masterpiece that is unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into "a knight in skirts". Freud studied Quixote's psyche. Twain was fascinated by it, as were Kafka, Picasso, Nabokov, Borges and Welles. The novel has spawned ballets and operas, poems and plays, films and video games, and even...