Ilan Stavans

Gebundenes Buch

The Disappearance

Beschreibung

Offers a vista of Jewish-Hispanic relations. This work features the novella ""Morirse esta en hebreo,"" which is a meditation on continuity and tradition among Mexican Jews that takes place just as a decades-long, one-party dictatorship is crumbling down. It also features ""Xerox Man,"" a story about a book thief with a bizarre theological obsession.

Autor

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five-College 40th Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. His books include The Essential Ilan Stavans (Routledge, 2000), The Hispanic Condition: The Power of a People (Rayo, 2001), On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language (Penguin, 2002), and Dictionary Days: A Defining Passion (Graywolf, 2005). He is also the author of Bandido: The Death and Resurrection of Oscar "Zeta" Acosta (Northwestern, 2003, sold 537 paper copies). Stavans has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship and Chile's Presidential Medal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 141mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780810123748
• ISBN-10: 0810123746
• Artikelnr.: 21938603