Stavans Unbound

Author : Bridget Kevane
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644692356

Get Book

Stavans Unbound by Bridget Kevane Pdf

Twenty-five years ago, Ilan Stavans published his first book, Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage (1993). Since then, Stavans has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and praised in equal measure, a commanding if contested intellectual whose work as a cultural critic has been influential in the fields of Latino and Jewish studies, politics, immigration, religion, language, and identity. He can be credited for bringing attention to Jewish Latin America and issues like Spanglish, he has been instrumental in shaping a certain view of Latino Studies in universities across the United States as well abroad, he has anthologized much of Latino and Latin American Jewish literature and he has engaged in contemporary pop culture via the graphic novel. He was the host of a PBS show called Conversations with Ilan Stavans, and has had his fiction adapted into the stage and the big screen. The man, as one critic stated, clearly has energy to burn and it does not appear to be abating. This collection celebrates twenty-five years of Stavans’s work with essays that describe the good and the bad, the inspired and the pedestrian, the worthwhile and the questionable.

Author : Ralph E. Rodriguez
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823279258

Get Book

Latinx Literature Unbound by Ralph E. Rodriguez Pdf

Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. Extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category under which we group this literature. Latinx Literature Unbound, thus, begins with a fundamental question “What does it mean to label a work of literature or an entire corpus of literature Latinx?” From this question others emerge: What does Latinx allow or predispose us to see, and what does it preclude us from seeing? If the grouping—which brings together a heterogeneous collection of people under a seemingly homogeneous label—tells us something meaningful, is there a poetics we can develop that would facilitate our analysis of this literature? In answering these questions, Latinx Literature Unbound frees Latinx literature from taken-for-granted critical assumptions about identity and theme. It argues that there may be more salubrious taxonomies than Latinx for organizing and analyzing this literature. Privileging the act of reading as a temporal, meaning-making event, Ralph E. Rodriguez argues that genre may be a more durable category for analyzing this literature and suggests new ways we might proceed with future studies of the writing we have come to identify as Latinx.

Author : Thomas Nulley-Valdés
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666903058

Get Book

McOndo Revisited by Thomas Nulley-Valdés Pdf

The first book-length analysis of the controversial Pan-Hispanic short story anthology “McOndo” (1996) draws on World Literature scholarship to take a step toward reclaiming the anthology’s artistic intentions and considering its generation-defining legacy in Latin American literary history.

Author : Rebecca Margolis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228015512

Get Book

Yiddish Lives On by Rebecca Margolis Pdf

The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has evolved as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond in addition to being used daily within Hasidic communities. Yiddish Lives On explores the continuity of the language in the hands of a diverse group of native, heritage, and new speakers. The book tells stories of communities in Canada and abroad that have resisted the decline of Yiddish over a period of seventy years, spotlighting strategies that facilitate continuity through family transmission, theatre, activism, publishing, song, cinema, and other new media. Rebecca Margolis uses a multidisciplinary approach that draws on methodologies from history, sociolinguistics, ethnography, digital humanities, and screen studies to examine the ways in which engagement with Yiddish has evolved across multiple planes. Investigating the products of an abiding dedication to cultural continuity among successive generations, Yiddish Lives On offers innovative approaches to the preservation, promotion, and revitalization of minority, heritage, and lesser-taught languages.

Author : Jehuda Hartman
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798887190303

Get Book

Patriots without a Homeland by Jehuda Hartman Pdf

Patriots without a Homeland dissects an important underexplored theme in Hungarian Jewry: Modern Orthodoxy. This study clearly demonstrates that beginning from the late nineteenth century, a strong modernizing trend developed within Orthodoxy based on the adoption of Hungarian national identity alongside the preservation of tradition. Modern Orthodoxy was receptive to the Hungarian language, culture, and religion. However, the attempt to integrate failed. The book traces the journey of Hungarian Jews from Emancipation to the Holocaust and seeks to understand the reasons for the Jews’ complete trust in Hungarian integrity. For instance, why did they believe until the very last moment that the Holocaust would not affect them? How could they fail to notice the impending disaster? This is the story of a community that felt rooted in the land and contributed greatly to its well-being, but was eventually rejected: the story of patriots without a homeland.

Author : Antonio Barrenechea
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826357595

Get Book

America Unbound by Antonio Barrenechea Pdf

This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes’s Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin’s Volkswagen Blues, and Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead. The encyclopedic novel has particular generic characteristics that serve these writers as a vehicle for the reincorporation of hemispheric histories. Starting with an examination of Moby-Dick as precursor, Barrenechea shows how this narrative genre allows Fuentes, Poulin, and Silko to reflect the interconnected world of today, as well as to dramatize indigenous and colonial values in their narratives. His close attention to written documents, visual representations, and oral traditions in these encyclopedic novels sheds light on their comparative cultural relations and the New World from pole to pole. This study amplifies the scope of “America” across cultures and languages, time and tradition.

Author : Lois Baer Barr
Publisher : Arizona State University, Center for Latin American Studies
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037465534

Get Book

Isaac Unbound by Lois Baer Barr Pdf

Presenting in-depth, systematic study of patriarchy in novels of contemporary South American Jewish writers, the author considers the works of Ariel Dorfman (Chile), Isaac Goldemberg (Peru), Teresa Porzecanski (Uruguay), Moacyr Scliar (Brazil), and Gerardo Mario Goloboff, Alicia Steimberg, and Mario Szichman (Argentina). "Barr successfully melds the elements of Jewish tradition and Latin American literary models". -- Darrel B. Lockhart, author of Latin American Jewish Women's Issues

Author : I. Stavans,Verónica Albin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230611252

Get Book

Knowledge and Censorship by I. Stavans,Verónica Albin Pdf

This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the uses of censorship. In the second part of the volume, Verónica Albin engages Stavans in a series of four conversations in which he expounds on the arguments he developed in the essays.

Author : Richard Delgado,Adrien Katherine Wing,Jean Stefancic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317256922

Get Book

Law Unbound! by Richard Delgado,Adrien Katherine Wing,Jean Stefancic Pdf

This book offers the best and most influential writings of Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures of the critical race theory movement and one of the earliest scholars to address the harms of hate speech. With excerpts from his classic law review articles, conversations with his famous alter ego Rodrigo Crenshaw, and comments on the vicissitudes of academic life, this book spans topics such as hate speech, affirmative action, the war on terror, the endangered status of black men, and the place of Latino/as in the civil rights equation.

Author : I. Stavans,Verónica Albin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1403984107

Get Book

Knowledge and Censorship by I. Stavans,Verónica Albin Pdf

This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the uses of censorship. In the second part of the volume, Verónica Albin engages Stavans in a series of four conversations in which he expounds on the arguments he developed in the essays.

Author : Martin Goodman,Jeremy Cohen,David Sorkin
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0199280320

Get Book

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies by Martin Goodman,Jeremy Cohen,David Sorkin Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies. Unlike recent attempts to encapsulate the current state of Jewish Studies, the Oxford Handbook is more than a mere compendium of agreed facts; rather, it is an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B5108952

Get Book

Agni by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jose L. Torres-Padilla,Carmen Haydee Rivera
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295800165

Get Book

Writing Off the Hyphen by Jose L. Torres-Padilla,Carmen Haydee Rivera Pdf

The sixteen essays in Writing Off the Hyphen approach the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora from current theoretical positions, with provocative and insightful results. The authors analyze how the diasporic experience of Puerto Ricans is played out in the context of class, race, gender, and sexuality and how other themes emerging from postcolonialism and postmodernism come into play. Their critical work also demonstrates an understanding of how the process of migration and the relations between Puerto Rico and the United States complicate notions of cultural and national identity as writers confront their bilingual, bicultural, and transnational realities. The collection has considerable breadth and depth. It covers earlier, undertheorized writers such as Luisa Capetillo, Pedro Juan Labarthe, Bernardo Vega, Pura Belpré, Arturo Schomburg, and Graciany Miranda Archilla. Prominent writers such as Rosario Ferré and Judith Ortiz Cofer are discussed alongside often-neglected writers such as Honolulu-based Rodney Morales and gay writer Manuel Ramos Otero. The essays cover all the genres and demonstrate that current theoretical ideas and approaches create exciting opportunities and possibilities for the study of Puerto Rican diasporic literature.

Author : Darrell B. Lockhart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134754274

Get Book

Jewish Writers of Latin America by Darrell B. Lockhart Pdf

Jewish writing has only recently begun to be recognized as a major cultural phenomenon in Latin American literature. Nevertheless, the majority of students and even Latin American literary specialists, remain uninformed about this significant body of writing. This Dictionary is the first comprehensive bibliographical and critical source book on Latin American Jewish literature. It represents the research efforts of 50 scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Israel who are dedicated to the advancement of Latin American Jewish studies. An introduction by the editor is followed by entries on 118 authors that provide both biographical information and a critical summary of works. Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico-home to the largest Jewish communities in Latin America-are the countries with the greatest representation, but there are essays on writers from Venezuela, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Cuba.

Author : Maritza E. Cárdenas
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813592848

Get Book

Constituting Central American–Americans by Maritza E. Cárdenas Pdf

Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured U.S. Central American identity and of the ways in which this identity challenges how we frame current discussions of Latina/o, American ethnic, and diasporic identities. By focusing on the formation of Central American identity in the U.S., Maritza E. Cárdenas challenges us to think about Central America and its diaspora in relation to other U.S. ethno-racial identities.