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title	:	Art and Anger : Essays On Politics and the Imagination
author	:	Stavans, Ilan.
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin	:	0826317448
print isbn13	:	9780826317445
ebook isbn13	:	9780585187310
language	:	English
subject	Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	PQ7081.S74 1996eb
ddc	:	864
subject	:	Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Page iii Art and Anger Essays on Politics and the Imagination Ilan Stavans University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque

Page iv Disclaimer: This book contains characters with diacritics. When the characters can be represented using the ISO 8859-1 character set ( http://www.w3.org/TR/images/latin1.gif ), netLibrary will represent them as they appear in the original text, and most computers will be able to show the full characters correctly. In order to keep the text searchable and readable on most computers, characters with diacritics that are not part of the ISO 8859-1 list will be represented without their diacritical marks. Books by Ilan Stavans in English FICTION The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories NONFICTION Bandido: Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta and the Chicano Experience The Hispanic Condition: Reflections on Culture and Identity in America Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage EDITOR Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish Latin American Writers Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories (co-edited with Harold Augenbraum) TRANSLATION Sentimental Songs by Felipe Alfau The essays in this collection first appeared, in somehwat different form, in the following publications: "Letter to a German Friend" in Midstream; "Two Peruvians" and ''Of Arms and the Essayist'' in Utne Reader and Transition; "The First Book," in The Washington Post Book World; "The Verbal Quest" in Metamorphoses and Translation Review; "The Master of Aracataca" and "Translation and Identity" in Michigan Quarterly Review; "Las Mariposas," "Pessoa's Echoes," "Discoveries," "The Adventures of Maqroll," and "Tongue Snatcher" in The Nation; "Vuelta: A Succinct Appraisal" in Salmagundi; "Art and Anger" and "Mexico: Four Dispatches" in In These Times; "Felipe Alfau" in Commonweal and as Preface to Sentimental Songs by Felipe Alfau (Dalkey Archive Press, 1992); "The Latin Phallus: A Survey" in Transition and in Muy Macho, Ray Gonzalez, ed. (Doubleday, 1996); "The Brick Novel" in The Bloomsbury Review; and "Hello Columbus" in Hungry Mind and Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage (Twayne, 1993). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stavans, Ilan. Art and anger: essays on politics and the imagination / Ilan Stavans. 1st ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8263-1744-8. 1. Latin American literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. I. Title. PQ7081.S74 1995 864dc20 95-50199 Copyright Ilan Stavans, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996. All rights reserved. First edition

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Page vii Contents Preface xi 1 Letter to a German Friend 3 2 Two Peruvians 9 3 The First Book 31 4 Las Mariposas 35 5 The Master of Aracataca 41 6 The Verbal Quest 68 7 Art and Anger 79 8 Pessoa's Echoes 85 9 Of Arms and the Essayist 93 10 Vuelta: A Succinct Appraisal 112 11 Discoveries 121 12 Mexico: Four Dispatches 131 13 The Adventures of Maqroll 144 14 Felipe Alfau 150 15 The Brick Novel 159 16 The Latin Phallus: A Survey 167 17 Translation and Identity 187 18 Tongue Snatcher 204 19 Hello Columbus 210 Index 237

Page ix Preface Saul Bellow is right: it is not always pleasant to read what you wrote almost a decade ago. I began writing these miscellaneous essays about a year after I moved to New York Cityor better, after I moved into the English language. To say that the transition was an arduous one is to undermine its true significance: I was aware since day one that my writing skills in Shakespeare's tongue were quite precarious; still, I was ready to do anything not to become an intellectual parasite, a pariah. I grew up with Yiddish and Hebrew around, aside from Spanish of course; translingualism, then, could be seen as a challenge, not an impediment. I immediately took to earnest the old dictum attributed to Anzia Yezierska, which described Jewish writers as "communicating vessels across cultural and linguistic lines." As I began writing in borrowed words, I devoted myself to the enterprise of explaining Hispanic culture to Anglo-Saxon readers. But I did so while remaining loyal to my native tongue, hence living two parallel lives: in Spanish I wrote about H. P. Lovecraft and B. Traven; in English, about Fernando Pessoa and Mario Vargas Llosa. Every so often I would have

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