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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ilan Stavans |
| ISBN: | 0415927536 9780415927536 0415927544 9780415927543 |
| OCLC Number: | 43706811 |
| Description: | viii, 342 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Into the Melting Pot -- Life in the Hyphen -- The Sounds of Spanglish -- Sandra Cisneros: Form over Content -- Against the Ostrich Syndrome -- Julia Alvarez: Las Mariposas -- Reading Cesar -- Autobiographical Essay -- The Jewish Self -- Novelizing the Holocaust? -- Of Jews and Canons -- Memory and Literature -- On Lionel Trilling -- Walter Benjamin: The Demon of Inspiration -- Alberto Gerchunoff's Jewish Gauchos -- The Verbal Quest -- Elias Canetti: Sephardic Master -- Pop Culture -- Viva el Kitsch! -- The Latin Phallus: A Survey -- Cartoon Freak -- Santa Selena -- Unmasking Marcos -- The Riddle of Cantinflas -- Southern Exposure -- Rigoberta Menchu: Truth or Dare -- Vuelta: A Succinct Appraisal -- Octavio Paz: Farewell to a Renaissance Man -- Translation and Identity -- Two Peruvians -- Calvert Casey: Renegade Artist -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Master of Aracataca -- Stories -- Xerox Man -- The One-Handed Pianist -- A Heaven without Crows -- Blimunda -- Three Nightmares. |
| Responsibility: | [edited by] Ilan Stavans. |
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