The Restless Ilan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside
Steven Kellman
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Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$45.94
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publish Date
April 16, 2019
Pages
128
Dimensions
5.9 X 9.1 X 0.7 inches | 0.75 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780822965855
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Steven G. Kellman is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Reviews
With Kellman writing on Stavans we encounter the spirit of the pícaro--and squared. Think: Cantinflas, Quixote, Candide, Tristram Shandy, Zelig playfully disrupting normative patterns of thinking as they dance across the ever-moving time and space of a funhouse mirror. Kellman's rigorous scholarship and mischievous pen sidestep hagiography to bring out the best of Stavans: his playfully slippery creative and intellectual poetics that poke, tease, and interrogate in ways that force us to rethink our own understanding of canons, language, culture, borders, belonging, history--even today's hanging-by-a-thread democracy.--Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University