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The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology

Product Description: During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations. From Rubén Darío’s quest to renew the Spanish language to César Vallejo’s linking of religion and politics, from Jorge Luis Borges’s cosmopolitanism to Pablo Neruda’s placement of poetry as uncompromising speaker for the downtrodden, and from Alejandra Pizarnik’s agonies of the self to Humberto Ak’abal’s examination of all things indigenous, it is through verse that the hemisphere’s cantankerous collective soul in an age of overhaul might best be understood...read more

By Ilan Stavans (editor)

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9780374100247 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 29, 2011, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A major bilingual anthology of twentieth-century Latin American poetryDuring a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations.

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9780374533182 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 27, 2012, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations.

Wretched Refuse: A Manifesto for Immigration

By Ilan Stavans

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9781556527418 | Lawrence Hill Books, March 1, 2012, cover price $16.95

Return to Centro Historico: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots

Product Description: After a stirring e-mail exchange with his father, awardwinning essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans decided to do something bizarre: revisit his hometown, Mexico City, accompanied by a tourist guide. But rather than seeking his roots in the neighborhood where he grew up, he headed to the Centro Histórico, the downtown area at the heart of the world’s largest metropolis...read more

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9780813551913 | Rutgers Univ Pr, February 28, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: After a stirring e-mail exchange with his father, awardwinning essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans decided to do something bizarre: revisit his hometown, Mexico City, accompanied by a tourist guide.

Latino USA: A Cartoon History

Product Description: Latino USA represents the culmination of Ilan Stavans’ lifelong determination to meet the challenges of capturing the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions of Latino culture within the context of the English language. In this cartoon history of Latinos, Stavans also seeks to combine the solemnity of so-called serious literature” and history with the inherently theatrical and humorous nature of the comics...read more

By Lalo Alcaraz (illustrator) and Ilan Stavans

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9780465082216 | Basic Books, September 4, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Provides a pop art interpretation of American history, from 1492 to the present, from a Latino perspective.

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9780465082506 | Basic Books, April 3, 2012, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Latino USA represents the culmination of Ilan Stavans’ lifelong determination to meet the challenges of capturing the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions of Latino culture within the context of the English language.

The Centaur in the Garden

Product Description: Named one of the 100 best Jewish works of the twentieth century by the National Yiddish Book Center, The Centaur in the Garden is reminiscent of the Chagall paintings in which scenes of everyday Jewish life are tenderly and oddly transmuted into fantasy...read more

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9780896727304 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, September 15, 2011, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Named one of the 100 best Jewish works of the twentieth century by the National Yiddish Book Center, The Centaur in the Garden is reminiscent of the Chagall paintings in which scenes of everyday Jewish life are tenderly and oddly transmuted into fantasy.

Jose Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race

Product Description: Mexican educator and thinker Jose Vasconcelos is to Latinos what W.E.B. Du Bois is to African Americans--a controversial scholar who fostered an alternative view of the future. In Josè Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race, his influential 1925 essay, "Mestizaje" key to understanding the role he played in the shaping of multiethnic America--is for the first time showcased and properly analyzed...read more

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9780813550633 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 7, 2011, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: Mexican educator and thinker Jose Vasconcelos is to Latinos what W.

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9780813550640 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 7, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Mexican educator and thinker José Vasconcelos is to Latinos what W.

What Is La Hispanidad?: A Conversation

Product Description: Natives of the Iberian Peninsula and the twenty countries of Latin America, as well as their kinsfolk who've immigrated to the United States and around the world, share a common quality or identity characterized as la hispanidad. Or do they?In this lively, provocative book, two distinguished intellectuals, a cultural critic and a historian, engage in a series of probing conversations in which they try to discern the nature of la hispanidad and debate whether any such shared identity binds the world's nearly half billion people who are "Hispanic...read more

By Ivan Jaksic and Ilan Stavans

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9780292719385 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Natives of the Iberian Peninsula and the twenty countries of Latin America, as well as their kinsfolk who've immigrated to the United States and around the world, share a common quality or identity characterized as la hispanidad.

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9780292725614 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 2011, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Natives of the Iberian Peninsula and the twenty countries of Latin America, as well as their kinsfolk who've immigrated to the United States and around the world, share a common quality or identity characterized as la hispanidad.

Barrio Boy: 40th Anniversary Edition

Product Description: About the Book Since it was first published in 1971, Galarza's classic work has been assigned in high school and undergraduate classrooms across the country, profoundly affecting thousands of students who read this true story of acculturation into American life...read more

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9780268029791 | 40 anv edition (Univ of Notre Dame Pr, February 1, 2011), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: About the Book Since it was first published in 1971, Galarza's classic work has been assigned in high school and undergraduate classrooms across the country, profoundly affecting thousands of students who read this true story of acculturation into American life.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latin Music

By Ilan Stavans

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9780313343957 | Greenwood Pub Group, November 30, 2012, cover price $399.00

9780313343971 | Greenwood Pub Group, November 1, 2009, cover price $55.01

9780313343995 | Greenwood Pub Group, November 1, 2009, cover price $55.01

9780313344015 | Greenwood Pub Group, November 1, 2009, cover price $55.01

One Hundred Years of Solitude

By Ilan Stavans (editor)

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9781587657092 | 1 edition (Salem Pr Inc, September 20, 2010), cover price $85.00

Norton Anthology of Latino Literature

Product Description: A dazzling and definitive compendium of the Latino literary tradition.This groundbreaking Anthology includes the work of 201 Latino writers from Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban-American, and Dominican-American traditions, as well as writing from other Spanish-speaking countries...read more

By Harold Augenbraum (editor), Maria Herrera-Sobek (editor), Rolando Hinojosa (editor) and Ilan Stavans (editor)

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9780393080070, titled "The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature" | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 13, 2010, cover price $59.95

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9780393975321, titled "The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature" | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 9, 2011, cover price $68.75 | About this edition: A dazzling and definitive compendium of the Latino literary tradition.

With All Thine Heart: Love and the Bible

Product Description: Is the Bible actually a love story between a deity and a people? And what does this love story have to do with the modern world? In With All Thine Heart distinguished cultural critic Ilan Stavans speaks to freelance writer Mordecai Drache about love in the Bible...read more

By Mordecai Drache (contributor) and Ilan Stavans

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9780813547978 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 1, 2010, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Is the Bible actually a love story between a deity and a people?

Futbol

By Ilan Stavans (editor)

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9780313375156 | Greenwood Pub Group, September 22, 2011, cover price $55.00

Beisbol

Product Description: From the late, great Roberto Clemente, to Giants legend Juan Marichal to Pedro Martinez, Manny Ramirez, Sammy Sosa, Alex Rodriguez, the Alou brothers, and many, many more, Latinos continue to make their mark on baseball. Béisbol takes an interdisciplinary look at this phenomenon, examining the impact of Latino players on the game and all that surrounds it, as well as baseball's impact on Latino players and fans...read more

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9780313375132 | Greenwood Pub Group, January 6, 2012, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: From the late, great Roberto Clemente, to Giants legend Juan Marichal to Pedro Martinez, Manny Ramirez, Sammy Sosa, Alex Rodriguez, the Alou brothers, and many, many more, Latinos continue to make their mark on baseball.

Mexican-american Cuisine

By Ilan Stavans (editor)

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9780313358227 | Greenwood Pub Group, September 22, 2011, cover price $55.00

Quinceanera / Sweet Fifteen

Product Description: This volume compiled by Ilan Stavans examines the importance of ritual and celebration and the quinceañera celebration's growing social importance to in the Latino community, particularly in the United States. The essays explore the quinceañera and the coming-of-age ritual from various angles...read more

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9780313358241 | Greenwood Pub Group, February 9, 2010, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This volume compiled by Ilan Stavans examines the importance of ritual and celebration and the quinceañera celebration's growing social importance to in the Latino community, particularly in the United States.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years

Product Description: This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life and works of the Nobel Laureate, father of magical realism, and bestselling author in the history of the Spanish language...read more

By Ilan Stavans

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9780312240332 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 5, 2010), cover price $25.00 | also contains Gabriel Garcia Marquez Biography | About this edition: This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

By Ilan Stavans

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9781587656347 | 1 har/psc edition (Salem Pr Inc, October 15, 2009), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude.

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9780230104808 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 5, 2010, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude.

Border Culture

Product Description: The border between the United States and Mexico, despite attempts at containment, remains a vast and uniquely malleable yet indefinable region. With Border Culture, Ilan Stavans has collected essays representative of the tangled experiences and issues central to life between cultures...read more

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9780313358203 | Greenwood Pub Group, February 9, 2010, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The border between the United States and Mexico, despite attempts at containment, remains a vast and uniquely malleable yet indefinable region.

Telenovelas

Product Description: Drama! Excess! Men in bee suits! Often erroneously compared to soap operas of the United States, outside of the necessary and sometimes fantastical dramatic story arc, however, the telenovela differs greatly from U.S. soap operas and have regional and cultural distinctions throughout Latin America...read more

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9780313364921, titled "Telenovelas / Soap Operas" | Greenwood Pub Group, February 9, 2010, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Drama!

A Critic's Journey

Product Description: One of the leading voices in Latino literature writes about his life and work

By Ilan Stavans

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9780472033829 | Univ of Michigan Pr, November 10, 2009, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: One of the leading voices in Latino literature writes about his life and work

A Critic's Journey

By Ilan Stavans

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9780472117062 | Univ of Michigan Pr, November 10, 2009, cover price $65.00

Cesar Chavez

Product Description: Labor leader, social justice advocate, Chicano leader, and humanitarian are only some of the multifaceted renderings of César Chávez. Ilan Stavans has compiled essays and first-person narratives that capture the multiple dimensions of this storied figure...read more

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9780313364884 | Greenwood Pub Group, February 9, 2010, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Labor leader, social justice advocate, Chicano leader, and humanitarian are only some of the multifaceted renderings of César Chávez.

Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing

Product Description: Immigration is the essential American story. From London or Lvov, Bombay or Beijing, Dublin or Dusseldorf, people have come to America to remake themselves, their lives, and their identities. Despite political obstacles, popular indifference, or hostility, they put down roots here, and their social, cultural, and entrepreneurial energies helped forge the open and diverse society we live in...read more

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9781598530513 | Library of America, October 15, 2009, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Immigration is the essential American story.

Health Care

Product Description: This work highlights the myriad problems Latinos face in becoming fully acculturated consumers of health care. Its series of chapters by expert contributors bridges the communication gap between mainstream medical professionals who need to understand the Latino worldview and Latinos that need to adapt to the puzzling complexity of providers and insurers that make up the American health care system...read more

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9780313364907 | Greenwood Pub Group, February 9, 2010, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This work highlights the myriad problems Latinos face in becoming fully acculturated consumers of health care.

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