Return to Centro Histórico: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots PDF
Preview Return to Centro Histórico: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots
return to centro histórico also by ilan stavans fiction The Disappearance * The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories nonfiction The Riddle of Cantinflas * Dictionary Days * On Borrowed Words * Spanglish * The Hispanic Condition * Art and Anger * Resurrecting Hebrew * A Critic’s Journey * The Inveterate Dreamer * Octavio Paz: A Meditation * Imagining Columbus * Bandido * ¡Lotería!(with Teresa Villegas) * José Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race conversations Knowledge and Censorship (with Verónica Albin) * What Isla hispanidad?(with Iván Jaksic´) * Ilan Stavans: Eight Conversations (with Neal Sokol) * With All Thine Heart (with Mordecai Drache) * Conversations with Ilan Stavans * Love and Language (with Verónica Albin) anthologies The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature * Tropical Synagogues * The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays * The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature * Lengua Fresca (with Harold Augenbraum)* Wáchale! * The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry * The Scroll and the Cross * The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories * Mutual Impressions * Growing Up Latino(with Harold Augenbraum) cartoons Latino USA(with Lalo López Alcaráz) * Mr. Spic Goes to Washington (with Roberto Weil) translations Sentimental Songs, by Felipe Alfau editions Spain, Take This Chalice from Meby César Vallejo 4 * The Poetry of Pablo Neruda * Encyclopedia Latina( volumes) * I Explain a Few Things 3 * The Collected Stories of Calvert Casey * Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories ( volumes) * Cesar Chavez: An Organizer’s Tale * Rubén Darío: Selected Writings general The Essential Ilan Stavans RetJ urn to Centro Histórico A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots Ilan Stavans rutgers university press new brunswick, new jersey, and london Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stavans, Ilan. Return to Centro histórico : a Mexican Jew looks for his roots / Ilan Stavans. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. isbn978–0–8135–5191–3(hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Stavans, Ilan. 2. Jews—Mexico—Mexico City—Biography. 3. Mexico City (Mexico)—Biography. I. Title. f1392.j4s73 2012 305.892´407253092—dc22 [B] 2011010859 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Centro Histórico map on the endpapers by Andy Anderson, using map data © 2011www.openstreetmap.org contributors, CC-BY-SA. Copyright © 2012by Ilan Stavans All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854–8099. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Visit our Web site: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Manufactured in the United States of America J A mis hijos Joshua e Isaiah Where there is no vision, the people perish. proverbs 29:18 — contents q1 I Am a Rooster q19 Tomato Jew q43 The Tourist q61 Centro Histórico q83 Paisanos q99 La Judería q115 My Face q135 I Am Dead q153 Sources q155 Photo Credits 60 61 Color plates appear between pages and
The list of books you might like
