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Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination
Ilan Stavans
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Description for Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination
Paperback. Fascinated by the idea of Western civilization as being a sequence of numerous misinterpretations and misrepresentations, these 19 essays, of Ilan Stavans, cover a broad range of topics with the unifying theme being the crossroads where politics and the imagination meet. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADSL; DSB; GTB; JFCX; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 320.
Fascinated by the idea of Western civilization as being a sequence of numerous misinterpretations and misrepresentations, these nineteen essays cover a broad range of topics with the unifying theme being the crossroads where politics and the imagination meet. An essay on linguistics and culture discusses the shaping of Latin America's collective identity; Peru's modern history is approached as a bloody battle between enlightenment and darkness; and in critiques of Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez, Stavans reflects on the dichotomy between pen and sword in the Hispanic world. In 'Letter to a German Friend', Stavans returns to his fate as ... Read more
Fascinated by the idea of Western civilization as being a sequence of numerous misinterpretations and misrepresentations, these nineteen essays cover a broad range of topics with the unifying theme being the crossroads where politics and the imagination meet. An essay on linguistics and culture discusses the shaping of Latin America's collective identity; Peru's modern history is approached as a bloody battle between enlightenment and darkness; and in critiques of Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez, Stavans reflects on the dichotomy between pen and sword in the Hispanic world. In 'Letter to a German Friend', Stavans returns to his fate as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
253
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312240318
SKU
V9780312240318
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About Ilan Stavans
ILAN STAVANS is Professor of Spanish at Amherst College and the author/editor of over twenty books including The Hispanic Condition (sold over 30,000 copies, 7th printing) and Growing Up Latino (sold over 50,000 copies, 9th printing). In the next year, Stavans's upcoming books include On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language (Viking 01) and The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature ... Read more
Reviews for Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination
"Stavans is lively and intelligent, eclectic, sharp-tongued." - Peter Matthiessen "Ilan Stavans is an inventive interpreter of the contemporary cultures of the Americas." - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.