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Ilan Stavans

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Ilan Stavans's Degrees

PhD Latin American Literature Columbia University
Masters Latin American Literature Columbia University
Bachelors Latin American Literature Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

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According to Wikipedia, Ilan Stavans is an American writer and academic. He writes and speaks on American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures. He is the author of Quixote and a contributor to the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature . He was the host of the syndicated PBS show Conversations with Ilan Stavans, which ran from 2001 to 2006.

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Ilan Stavans's Published Works

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Published Works

Facts on File (1993) (198)
Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language (2004) (117)
The Hispanic Condition: Reflections on Culture and Identity in America (1995) (70)
The Norton anthology of Latino literature (2011) (40)
Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way. (1995) (33)
The Latin Phallus (1995) (24)
On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language (2006) (23)
Santería. The Religion (1990) (21)
Growing up Latino : memoirs and stories (1993) (20)
José Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race (2011) (15)
The Other Voice (1994) (14)
The Hispanic Condition (1995) (13)
Antiheroes: Mexico and Its Detective Novel (1997) (12)
The Essential Ilan Stavans (2000) (11)
Tickling the Tongue (2000) (10)
Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings (1997) (10)
The riddle of Cantinflas : essays on Hispanic popular culture (1998) (10)
The Oxford book of Latin American essays (1997) (10)
Spanglish para millones (2000) (9)
Chronicle of the Narváez expedition (2002) (8)
Collected stories : Gimpel the fool to The letter writer (2004) (8)
Backlands: The Canudos Campaign (2010) (8)
The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (1998) (8)
An Organizer's Tale: Speeches (2008) (7)
Encyclopedia Latina : history, culture, and society in the United States (2005) (7)
Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another (1999) (7)
Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers (1995) (6)
A Luis Leal Reader (2007) (6)
How Elite Universities Fail Latino Students. (2006) (5)
Anonymity: An Interview with Felipe Alfau (1993) (5)
Yiddish south of the border : an anthology of Latin American Yiddish writing (2003) (5)
Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage (1992) (5)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Latino Art (2014) (4)
Return to Centro Histórico: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots (2011) (4)
Trump, the Wall and the Spanish Language (2017) (4)
Chronicle of the Narváez expedition : a new translation, context, criticism (2013) (4)
Becoming Americans : four centuries of immigrant writing (2009) (4)
The Triumph of the Exception (1993) (3)
Emma Zunz: The Jewish Theodicy of Jorge Luis Borges (2009) (3)
A Comment on Borges's Response to Hitler (2003) (3)
Gabo in Decline (1993) (3)
Julio Cortázar : a study of the short fiction (1996) (3)
The Riddle Of Cantinflas (1998) (3)
Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years (2009) (3)
Steps under water (1996) (3)
"The Translingual Sensibility: A Conversation Between Steven G. Kellman and Ilan Stavans" (2015) (3)
A Mode of Truth: A Conversation on Biography between Ilan Stavans and Donald Yates (2009) (2)
The inveterate dreamer : essays and conversations on Jewish culture (2001) (2)
Against the ostrich syndrome (1997) (2)
Memory and Literature (2016) (2)
Javier Marias: An appreciation (2001) (2)
¡Muy Pop!: Conversations on Latino Popular Culture (2013) (2)
Sandra cisneros: Form over content (1996) (2)
The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography (2005) (2)
Art and anger : essays on politics and the imagination (2001) (2)
The Scroll and the Cross : 1,000 Years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature (2013) (2)
California Dreaming@@@Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster@@@Bandido: Oscar "Zeta" Acosta and the Chicano Experience@@@Ruben Salazar: Border Correspondent. Selected Writings, 1955-1970 (1998) (2)
Beyond Translation: Borges and Faulkner (2001) (2)
Collected stories : A friend of Kafka to Passions (2004) (2)
Knowledge and Censorship (2008) (2)
Letter to a German Friend (1996) (2)
The Sounds of Spanglish (2012) (2)
The collected stories (1998) (2)
Jose Guadalupe Posada, Lampooner (1990) (2)
Memories of Buenos Aires: Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina (2013) (2)
The Original Language (1995) (1)
Translation and Identity (1996) (1)
The End of the Melting Pot (2016) (1)
Questions of legitimacy (1993) (1)
I Love My Selfie (2017) (1)
THE INVETERATE DREAMER (2013) (1)
Art And Anger (1996) (1)
Pierre Menard: Retranslation and Approximation (2020) (1)
The book of memories (1998) (1)
Immigration and Authenticity (2011) (1)
Spanish in the United States (2013) (1)
Latino history and culture (2007) (1)
Avenues of Translation : The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing (2019) (1)
Don Quijote in Spanglish: Translation and Appropriation (2004) (1)
Singer's Typewriter and Mine: Reflections on Jewish Culture (2012) (1)
Talia in heaven (1993) (1)
Is American Literature Parochial? (2022) (1)
Language and Colonization (2009) (1)
Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side (2004) (1)
A Critic's Journey (2009) (1)
The Prophet of Race (2020) (1)
Mexican Popular Prints (1989) (1)
Latin music : musicians, genres, and themes (2014) (1)
Translating Don Quixote: A Conversation (2016) (1)
SIXTEEN. The Latin American Novel as International Merchandise (2019) (1)
Inventing the Hispanic Psyche. (1992) (1)
Oscar Hijuelos, novelista (1991) (1)
Epilogue: Home Is Where (2015) (1)
An Appointment with Hector Belascoaran Shayne Mexican private eye (a profile of Paco Ignacio Taibo II) (1990) (1)
Latin American Jewish Literature (2012) (1)
On Packing My Library (2000) (1)
Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories. Reflections on Life in the United States. (1993) (1)
Should Books Be Sold? (2022) (0)
The Plagiarist (2010) (0)
The Serious Business of Leisure (2015) (0)
Mexican-American cuisine (2011) (0)
On Desecration: Andrés Serrano, Piss Christ (2013) (0)
Epilogue (2021) (0)
Latino Science Fiction (2016) (0)
Wor(l)ds (2008) (0)
On Being Misunderstood (2012) (0)
Don Quixote at 400: Still Conquering Hearts. (2005) (0)
Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin, “El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel” (2012) (0)
A Conversation with Fernando del Paso (1996) (0)
Interview with Ilan Stavans (2014) (0)
Other Diaspora Jewish Literatures Since 1492 (2004) (0)
Metrópolis o 1990 previsto: Cine (1990) (0)
Exchange with Audience (2006) (0)
Conclusion: In Search of the Future (1993) (0)
Barrio Boy: 40th Anniversary Edition (1971) (0)
The Thereafter: Carmen Lomas Garza, Heaven and Hell (2014) (0)
The Plight of Narcissus (2017) (0)
Mapa Mundi: Two Visionary Mexican Poets (2003) (0)
9. Translation matters (2021) (0)
Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans (review) (2009) (0)
The Street as Art: BEAR_TCK, Chicano Graffiti (2014) (0)
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places de Alberto Manguel y Gianni Guadalupi (1988) (0)
Reading and discussion: EURO-DENTITY: webs of language and self (2009) (0)
Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment (1989) (0)
Gaucho Literature (2019) (0)
Marissa K. López, Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature (New York: New York University Press, 2011), pp. x + 258, $75.00, $24.00 pb. (2012) (0)
10. The Language Prism (2015) (0)
The Impostor’s Mask: María Brito, Conversation (2014) (0)
Where Renegades Become Saints (2019) (0)
3. The age of anxiety (2021) (0)
The Horrors of War: Luis Cruz Azaceta, Slaughter (2014) (0)
Happy birthday, Señor Poeta! (2004) (0)
"A Lay Lexicographer": On Codifying the Dictionary of Spanglish (2020) (0)
Of Arms and the Essayist (1996) (0)
Dr. Serbin's Honorable Mention (2021) (0)
This Way to the Ovens, Señoras y Señores: Holocaust Cartoons in Latin America (2019) (0)
Don Quixote: Two Samples y un epitafio (2017) (0)
And Then Comes Darkness (2017) (0)
In the Land of Lost Words: Modes of seeing (2001) (0)
Mexico: Four Dispatches (1996) (0)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Keeping My Mouth Shut (2008) (0)
The Motion of Myth (2015) (0)
Nostalgia and Recognition: Ilan Stavans and Morris Dickstein in Conversation (2003) (0)
Memories of Buenos Aires (2013) (0)
The Bomb Explodes (2021) (0)
Rembrandt’s Instamatic (2017) (0)
Stories for everyone (1999) (0)
"Don Quijote" in Spanglish: réflexions autour de la traduction d'Ilan Stavans (2004) (0)
The Process Glitch (2008) (0)
INTRODUCTION LIBERALISM AND AMERICAN JEWS (2012) (0)
A Conversation between Ilan Stavans and Barry Moser (2017) (0)
Is American Spanish Healthy? (2020) (0)
I Laugh in Your Race!: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Skull) (2014) (0)
Clara: Thirteen Stories and a Novel (review) (2001) (0)
Gabriel García Márquez and the Worlding of Latin American Literature (2019) (0)
The Ambiguity of Madness: Martín Ramírez, No. 111, Untitled (Train and Tunnel) (2014) (0)
Out of Focus (2017) (0)
Spaces of the Body (2019) (0)
Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans . Edited by Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. Pp. x, 294. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Index. $27.95 paper. (2009) (0)
5. Into the mainstream (2021) (0)
Discovery or Encounter (1993) (0)
Vuelta : A Succinct Appraisal (1996) (0)
Isaac Bashevis Singer : an album (2004) (0)
The English Borges (1999) (0)
With All Thine Heart: Love and the Bible (2010) (0)
The Latin Phallus: A Survey (1996) (0)
The Cosmos and the City (2015) (0)
Z and I (2021) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
Return to Centro Histórico (2012) (0)
The Surge of Latino Lit (2017) (0)
Laura Limonic, Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jewish in the United States (2020) (0)
May My Wrath Abide Forever (2021) (0)
Excerpts from The Wall (2017) (0)
A CATALOGUE OF JEWISH SYMBOLS (2013) (0)
7. The ingathering (2021) (0)
The underdogs : a new translation, contexts, criticism (2015) (0)
The Endless Atlas (2015) (0)
The Language Prism (2015) (0)
Carlos Fuentes: In Praise of Folly (2012) (0)
The Seventh Heaven (2019) (0)
Hispanic USA: literature, music and language (2004) (0)
Sentimental Songs = La Poesía Cursi (1992) (0)
North–South, East–West (2020) (0)
The Death Game: Francisco Oller, El velorio (2014) (0)
Borges and the Jews (2016) (0)
Alone with Others (2017) (0)
With All Thine Heart (2010) (0)
Sandra Messinger Cypress, Uncivil Wars: Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012), pp. xii+247, $50.00, hb. (2013) (0)
A Girl’s Innocence: Mariana Yampolsky, Elva (2014) (0)
American America: María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Above All Things (2014) (0)
WRESTLING WITH MACHADO (2018) (0)
8. The critic’s “I” (2021) (0)
Sor Juana (2018) (0)
As a professor of Jewish Studies, how do you perceiveyour responsibility to the Jewish community? (2012) (0)
Splendor, decline, and rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America (2021) (0)
The Brick Novel (1996) (0)
2. The Yiddish self (2021) (0)
Nacho Libre: Or the Inauthenticity of Rascuachismo (2013) (0)
The Return of Carvajal: A Mystery (2019) (0)
New World: Young Latino Writers (1996) (0)
Notes on Latino Philology (2020) (0)
Guacamole and Dos Equis (2021) (0)
Felipe Alfau: A Bibliography (1993) (0)
‘Clean, Fix, and Grant Splendor’: The Making of Diccionario de Autoridades (2021) (0)
Traveling Outside the Frame (2015) (0)
The Spanish Language in Latin America since Independence (2017) (0)
Judith Noemí Freidenberg, The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity (Austin TX: University of Texas Press, 2009), pp. xx+184, $55.00, hb. (2010) (0)
Jesus and a Cat's Meow (2021) (0)
lection of chiles rellenos that one might expect in a nouvelle Mexican cookbook. Cal- ifornia cuisine was clearly flourishing long before the Too Hot Tamales. (2004) (0)
Raz de marea: Obra poética (1975-1992) (1995) (0)
The Telephone Book (2003) (0)
Danilo Kis in Buenos Aires (1994) (0)
The life of Lazarillo de Tormes, his fortunes and adversities : a new translation, contexts, criticism (2016) (0)
The Industry of Fake Experience (2015) (0)
The Labyrinth of History: Einar and Jamex de la Torre, La reconquista (2014) (0)
Jewish literature and Latin America (2003) (0)
Interview with Edwin Cruz (2015) (0)
The Verbal Quest (1996) (0)
Twisted Tongue: Adál, La Spanglish Sandwich Bodega Bag (2000) (2014) (0)
Prophecies in Portugal (1998) (0)
The madness of youth (1999) (0)
Collected stories : One night in Brazil to The death of Methuselah (2004) (0)
Bi(bli)ographies@@@Borges: A Life.@@@Collected Stories (1997) (0)
Dying in Hebrew (2016) (0)
The Melodrama Machine (2021) (0)
Pessoa’s Echoes (1996) (0)
1. After the expulsion (2021) (0)
Against Representation: A Note on Jorge Luis Borges’ Aleph (2017) (0)
The First Book (1996) (0)
Judaism and Literature (2014) (0)
Homero Aridjis (Mexico, 1940-) "Sepharad, 1492" [poem] (2013) (0)
Graffiti in Latin America (2018) (0)
Fiesta on the Border (2016) (0)
A Case Study in Latin American Literature: Ilan Stavans’ On Borrowed Words (2020) (0)
Selected Translations (2021) (0)
Why I Became a Publisher (2015) (0)
Boulevard of Heroes (1993) (0)
The Master of Aracataca (1996) (0)
Arrival: reflections of an interloper (2011) (0)
Alcina Lubitch Domecq: In Commendation (1999) (0)
The Rise and Fall of Yiddish (2016) (0)
A Symposium on Secret Spaces (2000) (0)
Reading Cesar (2000) (0)
Images of Frida Kahlo (1989) (0)
Dear Miss Shrifte (2021) (0)
Borges y el doctor Johnson (1987) (0)
The Adventures of Maqroll (1996) (0)
Ensayo sobre el ensayo: Una conversación (2014) (0)

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