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173 produkter
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Häftad, 2023
202 kr
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Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are …
Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Collected Stories
A Library of America Boxed Set
Av Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ilan Stavans m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1311 kr
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Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Ilan Stavans
Häftad, 2012
231 kr
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Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition tells the unforgettable story of a sixteenth-century soldier turned explorer who, along with three other survivors of a shipwreck, makes his way across an unknown geographic and cultural landscape. This …
Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language
The Making of a New American Language
Av Ilan Stavans
Häftad, 2004
189 kr
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Organizer's Tale
Speeches
Häftad, 2008
222 kr
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One of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of non-violence, and effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause. Through his efforts, he helped achieve dignity, fair wages, benefits, and humane working conditions …
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems
Parallel Text Edition
Av Cesar Vallejo, Ilan Stavans
Häftad, 2008
266 kr
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Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles the avant-garde poet's politics head-on in …
Jewish Literature
A Very Short Introduction
Av Ilan Stavans
Häftad, 2021
130 kr
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The 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 Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual …
Jewish Literature
A Very Short Introduction
Av Ilan Stavans
E-bok, 2021
106 kr
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The 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 Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual …
Jewish Literature
A Very Short Introduction
Av Ilan Stavans
E-bok, 2021
106 kr
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The 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 Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual …
Latinos in the United States
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Av Ilan Stavans
Häftad, 2018
194 kr
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As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in the U.S. represent the second-largest concentration of Hispanic people in the entire world, after Mexico. Needless to say, the population of Latinos in the U.S. is causing a shift, not only changing …
Latinos in the United States
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Av Ilan Stavans
Inbunden, 2018
797 kr
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As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in the U.S. represent the second-largest concentration of Hispanic people in the entire world, after Mexico. Needless to say, the population of Latinos in the U.S. is causing a shift, not only changing …
Latinos in the United States
What Everyone Needs to Know(R)
Av Ilan Stavans
E-bok, 2017
112 kr
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As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in the U.S. represent the second-largest concentration of Hispanic people in the entire world, after Mexico. Needless to say, the population of Latinos in the U.S. is causing a shift, not only changing …
Latinos in the United States
What Everyone Needs to Know(R)
Av Ilan Stavans
E-bok, 2017
112 kr
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As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in the U.S. represent the second-largest concentration of Hispanic people in the entire world, after Mexico. Needless to say, the population of Latinos in the U.S. is causing a shift, not only changing …
The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies
Av Ilan Stavans
Inbunden, 2020
2819 kr
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At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the Latino minority, the biggest and fastest growing in the United States, is at a crossroads. Is assimilation taking place in comparable ways to previous immigrant groups? Are the links to the countries of origin being redefined in the age …
Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies
Av Ilan Stavans
E-bok, 2020
2319 kr
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At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the Latino minority, the biggest and fastest growing in the United States, is at a crossroads. Is assimilation taking place in comparable ways to previous immigrant groups? Are the links to the countries of origin being redefined in the age …
Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies
Av Ilan Stavans
E-bok, 2020
2319 kr
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At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the Latino minority, the biggest and fastest growing in the United States, is at a crossroads. Is assimilation taking place in comparable ways to previous immigrant groups? Are the links to the countries of origin being redefined in the age …
What is American Literature?
Av Ilan Stavans
E-bok, 2022
263 kr
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An 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 distinguished cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the nation''s identity through the prism of its books, from …
What is American Literature?
Av Ilan Stavans
E-bok, 2022
263 kr
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An 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 distinguished cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the nation''s identity through the prism of its books, from …
The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories
Av Ilan Stavans
Inbunden, 1999
818 kr
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In this remarkably wide-ranging anthology, Ilan Stavans has collected the work of more than fifty notable Jewish writers from around the globe, weaving these diverse viewpoints and voices into a rich portrait of Jewish literary tradition.The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories takes us from the mid-1800s …
Jorge Luis Borges
A Very Short Introduction
Av Ilan Stavans
Häftad, 2025
127 kr
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899--1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, philosophical ideas, and myriad other topics. This Very Short Introduction gives an engaging overview …
What is American Literature?
Av Ilan Stavans
Inbunden, 2022
317 kr
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An 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 distinguished cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the nation's identity through the prism of its books, from …
Once@9:53am
Terror in Buenos Aires
Av Ilan Stavans
Häftad, 2016
240 kr
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At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Once, Buenos Aires. The explosion left eighty-five people dead and over …
Once@9:53am
Terror en Buenos Aires
Av Ilan Stavans
Häftad, 2016
240 kr
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At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Once, Buenos Aires. The explosion left eighty-five people dead and over …
Return of Carvajal
A Mystery
Av Ilan Stavans
Inbunden, 2019
248 kr
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In 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 stolen decades earlier from Mexico’s National Archives. Here, Ilan Stavans recounts the extraordinary …
Pre-Columbian Bestiary
Fantastic Creatures of Indigenous Latin America
Av Ilan Stavans
Inbunden, 2020
254 kr
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An encyclopedic collaboration between award-winning Mexican American scholar Ilan Stavans and illustrator Eko, A Pre-Columbian Bestiary features lively and informative descriptions of forty-six religious, mythical, and imaginary creatures from the Nahua, Aztec, Maya, Tabasco, Inca, Aymara, and …
What Is La Hispanidad?
A Conversation
Häftad, 2011
212 kr
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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 …
San Juan
Memoir of a City
Av Edgardo Rodriguez Julia, Peter Grandbois m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
237 kr
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San Juan: Memoir of a City conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo Rodriguez Julia. No mere sightseeing tour, this is culture through immersion, a circuit of San Juan's historical and intellectual vistas as well as its …
Love and Language
Av Ilan Stavans, Verónica Albin
Inbunden, 1996
876 kr
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“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 StavansOur understanding of love today is not the same as the one espoused by Plato in the fourth century BCE. Nor is it the same as the courtly love …
