Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is the author of many books, including Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language and A Most Imperfect Union. He is also general editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature.

Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is the author of many books, including Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language and A Most Imperfect Union. He is also general editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature.

Books by Ilan Stavans

  • Quixote: The Novel and the World

    Ilan Stavans

    Paperback, 2017

    An innovative cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated and most imitated novel in the world.
  • Quixote: The Novel and the World

    Ilan Stavans

    E Book, 2015

    An innovative cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated and most imitated novel in the world.
  • Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition: A Norton Critical Edition

    Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Ilan Stavans, David Frye

    First Edition, Paperback, 2012

    This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527–36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America.
  • Lazarillo de Tormes: A Norton Critical Edition

    Anonymous, Ilan Stavans, Ilan Stavans

    First Edition, Paperback, 2016

    Anonymously published in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes remains a centrepiece of Renaissance literature and is arguably the most popular example of the picaresque novel.
  • Selected Poems/Poemas Selectos

    Jimmy Santiago Baca, Tomás H. Lucero, Liz Fania Werner, Ilan Stavans

    Paperback, 2009

    “Baca writes with unconcealed passion . . . and manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythical and archetypal significance of life events.”—Denise...
  • Selected Poems/Poemas Selectos

    Jimmy Santiago Baca, Tomás H. Lucero, Liz Fania Werner, Ilan Stavans

    E Book, 2013

    “Baca writes with unconcealed passion . . . and manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythical and archetypal significance of life events.”—Denise...
  • Lazarillo de Tormes: A Norton Critical Edition

    Anonymous, Ilan Stavans, Ilan Stavans

    First Edition, E Book, 2021

    Anonymously published in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes remains a centrepiece of Renaissance literature and is arguably the most popular example of the picaresque novel.