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The Essential Ilan Stavans Ilan Stavans 9780415927543
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67Here, Ilan Stavans, one of the foremost Latino scholars, collects his best essays into one volume. As a Mexican Jew whose native languages are Yiddish and Spanish, Stavans writes in English to limn... -
Spanglish by Ilan Stavans 9780313348044
Booksplease Price: £51.71Spanglish-a hybrid of Spanish and English-is intricately interwoven with the history and culture of Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States. With deep roots that... -
Beisbol by Ilan Stavans 9780313375132
Booksplease Price: £51.21This insightful collection documents Latinos in baseball from an interdisciplinary perspective. From the late, great Roberto Clemente, to Giants legend Juan Marichal to Pedro Martinez, Manny Ramirez,... -
CONVERSATIONS WITH ILAN STAVANS by 9780816522644
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.85For almost twenty years, Ilan Stavans described by the Washington Post as "Latin America's liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast" has interviewed path-breaking... -
Reclaiming Travel by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26Based on a controversial opinion piece originally published in the New York Times, Reclaiming Travel is a provocative meditation on the meaning of travel from ancient times to the twenty-first... -
Telenovelas by Ilan Stavans 9780313364921
Booksplease Price: £56.13Drama! 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... -
The Wall by Ilan Stavans 9780822965282
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.83Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for PoetryThe Wall is a poetic exploration-across time, space, and language, real as well as metaphorical-of the U.S.-Mexican wall dividing the two... -
Immigration by Ilan Stavans 9780313348020
Booksplease Price: £51.71Immigration is a topic on the minds of a large portion of Americans. In 2006, a series of large marches and political debates shook the nation to the core. With the 2008 presidential campaign under... -
Quinceanera by Ilan Stavans 9780313358241
Booksplease Price: £51.21This volume compiled by Ilan Stavans examines the importance of ritual and celebration and the quinceanera celebration's growing social importance to in the Latino community, particularly in the... -
Futbol by Ilan Stavans 9780313375156
Booksplease Price: £61.08This insightful compilation offers interdisciplinary views on soccer among Latinos. In contrast with its relative lack of popularity in the United States, elsewhere, professional soccer is a hugely... -
A Critic's Journey by Ilan Stavans 9780472033829
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £21.52Ilan Stavans has been a lightning rod for cultural discussion and criticism his entire career. In A Critic's Journey, he takes on his own Jewish and Hispanic upbringing with an autobiographical focus... -
Border Culture by Ilan Stavans 9780313358203
Booksplease Price: £56.13The 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... -
Love and Language by Ilan Stavans 9780300118056
Booksplease Price: £54.04"It's crucial to keep in mind that our understanding of love is in constant flux and that history is nothing but a sideboard of possibilities."-Ilan Stavans Our understanding of love today is not the... -
A Critic's Journey by Ilan Stavans 9780472117062
Booksplease Price: £76.37Ilan Stavans has been a lightning rod for cultural discussion and criticism his entire career. In A Critic's Journey, he takes on his own Jewish and Hispanic upbringing with an autobiographical focus... -
Octavio Paz: A Meditation by Ilan Stavans
Booksplease Price: £26.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816520909Author Ilan StavansFormat HardbackPage Count 89Imprint University of Arizona... -
Zigzagger: Stories by Ilan Stavans 9780810120990
Booksplease Price: £15.73Set mainly in California's Central Valley, Manuel Munoz's collection of stories goes beyond the traditional family myths and narratives of Chicano literature and explores, instead, the constant... -
The Oven: An Anti-Lecture by Ilan Stavans
Booksplease Price: £27.14After a chance meeting with a shaman in Colombia, Ilan Stavans, the highly regarded literary scholar, found himself in the Amazon rainforest. He had reluctantly agreed to participate in a religious... -
Health Care by Ilan Stavans 9780313364907
Booksplease Price: £51.21Ilan Stavans has amassed a collection of cutting-edge articles that inform readers about how Latinos navigate both the mainstream medical arena and culturally specific healing traditions. This work... -
Latina Writers by Ilan Stavans 9780313348068
Booksplease Price: £51.21Latina literature is one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today, and the impact Latina writers have had on the literary scene is undeniable. This volume features the most... -
Cesar Chavez by Ilan Stavans 9780313364884
Booksplease Price: £56.13Labor leader, social justice advocate, Chicano leader, and humanitarian are only some of the multifaceted renderings of Cesar Chavez. Ilan Stavans has compiled essays and first-person narratives that... -
The Secret Recipe by Ilan Stavans 9781728486437
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCenter for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books of the Year.Book InformationISBN... -
Popol Vuh: A Retelling by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632062406Author Ilan StavansFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless... -
Dictionary Days by Ilan Stavans 9781555974190
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.88A dictionary, despite its heroic efforts to pin down language, is destined for failure the moment a single word is printed; for language, with its eternal mutations, is forever uncontainable... -
Lazarillo de Tormes by Ilan Stavans 9780393938050
Booksplease Price: £13.92Based on Ilan Stavans' new translation which accurately captures the verve of the original, this Norton Critical Edition includes: an introduction and explanatory annotations; contextual materials... -
Sor Juana: Or, the Persistence of Pop by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816536078Author Ilan StavansFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint University of Arizona... -
Quixote: The Novel and the World by Ilan Stavans 9780393353426
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.302015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha-an ageless masterpiece that is unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired... -
Angelitos: A Graphic Novel by Ilan Stavans 9780814254592
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254592Author Ilan StavansFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ohio State University... -
The Disappearance: A Novella and Stories by Ilan Stavans 9780810151925
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.30Hailed as one of the most important Hispanic writers of his generation, Ilan Stavans is a celebrated storyteller whose work has been translated into a dozen languages and has garnered numerous... -
Mexican-American Cuisine by Ilan Stavans 9780313358227
Booksplease Price: £56.13Providing food for the brain as well as the body, this wonderful collection of essays explores the boundaries between Mexican and Mexican-American foods, promotes philosophical understandings of... -
Octavio Paz: A Meditation by Ilan Stavans 9780816542567
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816542567Author Ilan StavansFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint University of Arizona... -
The Return of Carvajal: A Mystery by Ilan Stavans 9780271084701
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.60In 2017, the New York Times announced that the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal the Younger had been rediscovered. Considered the first autobiography by a Jew in the Americas, the book had been... -
What is American Literature? by Ilan Stavans 9780198816218
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.43An incisive, thought-provoking, and timely meditation, at once panoramic and synoptic, on American literature for an age of xenophobia, heightened nationalism, and economic disparity. The... -
Latino USA: A Cartoon History Ilan Stavans 9781541605565
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25An irreverent and kaleidoscopic cartoon history of Latino life, culture, and politics, now revised and updated for its twenty-fifth anniversaryIn Latino USA, Latin American and Latino scholar Ilan... -
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.81The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to... -
Selected Translations: 2000-2020 by Ilan Stavans 9780822966609
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.63For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other languages. His versions of Borges, Neruda, Sor Juana... -
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Ilan Stavans 9781587657092
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £81.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorIlan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five-College 40th... -
I Love My Selfie by Ilan Stavans 9780822363385
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical and cultural roots by discussing everything from Greek... -
Mr. Spic Goes To Washington by Ilan Stavans 9781593761981
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593761981Author Ilan StavansFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft... -
On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language by Ilan Stavans 9781438471488
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.94A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.Finalist for the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Essay category From award-winning,... -
The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £15.30A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and...