Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction x
5. Ilan Stavans: Our Meturgeman Par Excellence 1
6. Life as Role Play: Ilan Stavans, the Life (long) Writer 7
7. El Iluminado: Ilan Stavans and the Incongruity of the Antihero 18
8. Life, Death, and Apotheosis of Words: DIC·TION·AR·Y DAYS 27
9. Cave Paintings: Cervantes, Turbans, and Heresy 32
10. Freedom to Pursue the Impossible Dream: Ilan Stavans and Don Quixote 42
11. Stavans Does Quixote 50
12. Ilan Stavans, Tongue Snatcher 74
13. El español y el spanglish en la era de Trump 92
14. “A World Defined by Immigration”: Ambivalence, Translationality, and Mestizaje in Ilan Stavans 103
15. Translation as a Way to Write the City 113
16. Returning Borrowed Words: Translation and Ilan Stavans’s Contribution to the English Language 121
17. On Words Reclaimed and the Fate of Ladino 131
18. Introductions: Ilan Stavans and the “Jewish Latin America” Series 146
19. Ilan Stavans’s Anthologization of the Latino Community in the United States 156
20. A Game of Mirrors: The Conversations of Ilan Stavans 167
21. Ilan Stavans and the Mojarra Condition 176
22. Mexican Bandit or the Last Intellectual?: Ilan Stavans’s Notorious Raid on the Chicano Literary Canon 186
23. Poetry and Music: Interview with Ilan Stavans Ian Campbell 197
24. Crossing Borders: Ilan Stavans’s Adventures on Stage with Double Edge Theatre 205
25. Broken Streets of My City 210
26. Spaces of the Body 220
27. Epilogue: Seven Lies About Ilan Stavans 223
28. Notes on Contributors 225
29. Index 233