Description:
This collection presents a series of autobiographical meditations by Ilan Stavans on how language defines every aspect of our life.
Brief description:
Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American, and Latino Culture at Amherst College.
Review Quotes:
"Ilan Stavans embodies as an intellectual the subject of this original multifaceted volume. A true delight full of turns and surprises aptly edited and introduced by Regina Galasso."
--Alicia Borinsky, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Boston University, and author of One-Way Tickets"Polylingual polymath, Ilan Stavans pirouettes between penetrating insights into the crisscrossing of languages and his own neologistic restless play. Nobody does and thinks language with such depth, verve, and elegance. From Cervantes to Borges, Petrarch to Lahiri, the Talmud to Memes, Stavans forever shifts our understanding of language, not as a prison house of absolutes, but as the sine qua non of our liberatory imagination."
--Frederick Luis Aldama, Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin