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050 00 $aPQ7079.2.S78$bZ86 2004
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100 1 $aStavans, Ilan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91085506
245 10 $aIlan Stavans :$beight conversations /$cNeal Sokol.
260 $aMadison :$bUniversity of Wisconsin Press,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axi, 207 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aThe self and the world -- The uses of catastrophe -- The task of the intellectual -- Translation and its discontents -- Onto "la hispanidad" -- Lexicomania -- A biographer in Macondo -- Of rabbis, books, and mirrors.
520 1 $a"The New York Times described Ilan Stavans as "the czar of Latino literature in the United States." But his influential oeuvre doesn't address Hispanic culture exclusively. It has also opened fresh new vistas into Jewish life globally, which has prompted the Forward to portray Stavans as "a maverick intellectual whose canonical work has already produced a whole array of marvels that are redefining Jewishness."" "Neal Sokol devoted almost a decade to the study of Stavans's work. He applies his knowledge to this series of eight interviews. In them Stavans is caught at the vortex where his Mexican, Jewish, and American heritages meet. He discusses everything from the formative influences that shaped his worldview to anti-Semitism, Edmund Wilson, sexuality in Latin America, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the fate of Yiddish. He also contrasts the role of intellectuals in advanced and developing societies, dwells on his admiration for Don Quixote and his passion for dictionaries, and reflects on his groundbreaking, controversial research on Spanglish - the hybrid encounter of English and Spanish that infuriates the Royal Academy in Madrid and also makes people describe Stavans as "the Salman Rushdie of the Hispanic world."" "Sokol tests Stavans's ideas and places them in context. By doing so, he offers a map to the heart and mind of one of our foremost thinkers today - an invaluable tool for his growing cadre of readers."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aStavans, Ilan$vInterviews.
650 0 $aHispanic American authors$vInterviews.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vInterviews.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101057
650 0 $aJews$zUnited States$vInterviews.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009127881
650 0 $aJews$zMexico$vInterviews.
700 1 $aSokol, Neal.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004042930
852 00 $bglx$hPQ7079.2.S78$iZ86 2004