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Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination

By Ilan Stavans

Book information

Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0826317448, 9780826317445
LCC
PQ7081 .S74 1996
Google Books ID
T2oyHSPR8uAC
Open Library ID
OL812948M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1206774 bytes)
Edition
1St Edition
Pages
257\257
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Ilan Stavans's vast and subtle knowledge deftly emerges in this engrossing collection of essays. Fascinated by the idea of Western civilization as a sequence of innumerable misinterpretations and misrepresentations, Stavans covers in these nineteen pieces a broad range of personal and philosophical topics with the unifying theme being the crossroads where politics and the imagination meet. His engaging and provocative topics include the shaping of Latin America's collective identity, Peru's modern history as a bloody battle between Enlightenment and darkness, critiques of Octavio Paz and Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, his own fate as a Jew in the Southern Hemisphere, and Columbus's afterlife.

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