- Copyright Page
- Contributors
- Introduction
- North–South, East–West: Topographies of Latinidad
- Latina/os and Race
- Latinx Midwest Folklore
- Bridges to Cuba and Latina/Latino Studies
- Atlantic Continuities in Tomás Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya
- The Chicano Movement in the New America
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Latina/o Culture
- Latino Urbanism and the Gentrifying City
- Latino Philosophy
- Latina/o Religious Studies Since the 1970s
- Barrio Music, Spirituality, and Social Justice in Latino Hip-Hop
- Notes on Latino Philology
- The Bilingualisms of Latino/a Literatures
- Rhetoric and Affect in Bilingual Latinx Literature
- Always in Translation: Ways of Writing in Spanish and English
- Spanglish: Current Issues, Future Perspectives, and Linguistic Insights
- Latinx Pop Cultural Studies <i>Hoy!</i>
- Reflections on Latina/o Theater
- Transcolonial Gothic and Decolonial Satire in Ramón Emeterio Betances
- A Borderlands History of Latinx Cinema
- Television and its Impact on Latinx Communities
- Latino/as and Sports
- Appendix Does Latino Literature Matter? A Conversation
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article reflects on the importance of language studies as an essential yet forgotten portal through which to appreciate politics, society, and culture. Written in an accessible tone in direct response to the insistently obtuse academic style that isolates such explorations from the reading public, it looks at grammar, semantics, syntax, and lexicography as interconnected disciplines always linked to the history and currents defining culture. Structurally, the article is divided into two parts: the first part is a personal reflection of linguistics as a discipline; the second is a proposal for a never-before attempted history of the Spanish language written from the perspective of a Latino scholar.
Keywords: Latino identity, language, philology, Spanglish, Spanish
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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- Copyright Page
- Contributors
- Introduction
- North–South, East–West: Topographies of Latinidad
- Latina/os and Race
- Latinx Midwest Folklore
- Bridges to Cuba and Latina/Latino Studies
- Atlantic Continuities in Tomás Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya
- The Chicano Movement in the New America
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Latina/o Culture
- Latino Urbanism and the Gentrifying City
- Latino Philosophy
- Latina/o Religious Studies Since the 1970s
- Barrio Music, Spirituality, and Social Justice in Latino Hip-Hop
- Notes on Latino Philology
- The Bilingualisms of Latino/a Literatures
- Rhetoric and Affect in Bilingual Latinx Literature
- Always in Translation: Ways of Writing in Spanish and English
- Spanglish: Current Issues, Future Perspectives, and Linguistic Insights
- Latinx Pop Cultural Studies <i>Hoy!</i>
- Reflections on Latina/o Theater
- Transcolonial Gothic and Decolonial Satire in Ramón Emeterio Betances
- A Borderlands History of Latinx Cinema
- Television and its Impact on Latinx Communities
- Latino/as and Sports
- Appendix Does Latino Literature Matter? A Conversation
- Index