Singer's Typewriter and Mine: Reflections on Jewish Culture

by Ilan Stavans

Book Overview

A cultural critic of extraordinary erudition, encyclopedic knowledge, and boundless curiosity, Ilan Stavans, an Ashkenazic Jew who grew up in Mexico, negotiates wildly varied topics as effortlessly and deftly as he manages the multiple perspectives of a dual national, religious, and ethnic identity. In Singer's Typewriter and Mine, a follow-up to The Inveterate Dreamer (Nebraska, 2001), Stavans interweaves his own experience with that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803271360
• ISBN13: 9780803271364
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.4"