Ilan Stavans, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature
10/12/2010 7:00 pm
"As prodigious and beautiful as the spirit of e pluribus unum,
this anthology asks the timely question of what it means to belong to
our nation, and offers a thousand answers. If Walt Whitman could hear
America singing now, he would be dancing to this beat." Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Lacuna
"Imaginatively
conceived, painstakingly executed, stunningly broad, profoundly
stirring, endlessly engaging, this book can change the way the world
thinks about America, and the way Americans think about themselves." Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, University of Notre Dame
Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Profession in Latin American and
Latino Culture, Amherst College. An award-winning essayist, translator,
columnist, and public television host, he is the author of numerous
books, including The Hispanic Condition, On Borrowed Words, Spanglish,
Love and Language, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years. He wrote
the texts for the graphic novels Latino USA: A Cartoon History and Mr.
Spic Goes to Washington. He also edited The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, the
three-volume Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories, Cesar Chavez: An
Organizer’s Tale, and Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant
Writing.
