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Description

1. xi, 116 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. This is the first book-length study of one of the most prominent and prolific Latino academics, Ilan Stavans. He has written extensively on Latino culture, Jewish culture, dictionaries, immigration, language, Spanglish, soccer, translation, travel, selfies, and God. The Restless Ilan Stavans surveys his interests, achievements, and flaws while he is still in the midst of an extraordinarily productive career. A native of Mexico who became a U.S. citizen, he is an outsider to both the Chicano community that often resents him as an interloper and the American Jewish community that he, who grew up speaking Yiddish in Mexico City, often chides. The book examines his unlikely rise to prominence within the context of the spread of multiculturalism as a seminal principle within American culture. A self-proclaimed cosmopolitan who rejects borders, Stavans is both insider and outsider to the myriad of subjects he approaches.

Series statement

1. Latino and Latin American profiles

Uniform title

1. Latino and Latin American profiles.

Subject

1. Hispanic American authors
2. Stavans, Ilan
3. Hispanic American authors > Biography
4. Stavans, Ilan > Criticism and interpretation
5. Mexican American authors > Biography
6. Criticism, interpretation, etc
7. Biography

Genre/Form

1. Biography.
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. The prodigy -- The Stavans paradox -- Stavans the Hispanic -- Stavans the Jew -- The multicultural moment -- The immigrant melt -- Lion prowling the academy -- Ilan Stavans tongue snatcher -- Chameleon Man.

Call number

1. JFE 19-8841

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-111) and index.

Author

1. Kellman, Steven G., 1947- author.

Title

1. The restless Ilan Stavans : outsider on the inside / Steven G. Kellman.

Publisher

1. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Latino and Latin American profiles
2. Latino and Latin American profiles.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-111) and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: 9780822986843 0822986841 (OCoLC)1090060537

ISBN

1. 9780822965855 (hbk.)
2. 0822965852 (hbk.)

Research call number

1. JFE 19-8841