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date: 26 January 2021

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This article is divided into two halves: the first offers nineteen theses on the role of topography in the shaping of Hispanic identity in general and Latinidad in particular; and the second is a rumination on the impact of geography on identity. The style of each of these parts is deliberately dissimilar yet they are built through continuities. The contributions of Oswald de Andrade, Gloria Anzaldúa, Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, José Hernández, Claude Lévi-Strauss, José Ortega y Gasset, Octavio Paz, José Enrique Rodó, Juan Rulfo, and José Vasconcelos are placed in dialogue and concepts like Mestizaje and Tropicalismo are considered.

Keywords: environmentalism, Hispanidad, immigration, Latinidad, Mestizaje, nature, Tropicalismo, tourism.

Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include The Hispanic Condition (1995), On Borrowed Words (2001), Spanglish (2003), Love and Language (2007), and Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years (2010). He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (1998), The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (2003), the 3-volume set of Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories (2004), Becoming Americans (2009), The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010), and The FSG Books of 20th-Century Latin American Poetry (2011). His play The Disappearance, performed by the theater troupe Double Edge, premiered at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and has been shown around the world. His story “Morirse está en hebreo” was made into the award-winning movie My Mexican Shivah (2007), produced by John Sayles. Stavans has received numerous awards, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Jewish Book Award, the Southwest Children Book of the Year Award, an Emmy nomination, the Latino Book Award, Chile’s Presidential Medal, the Rubén Darío Distinction, and the Cátedra Roberto Bolaño. He was the host of the syndicated PBS show Conversations with Ilan Stavans (2001-2006). His work has been translated into a dozen languages.

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