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Title: The Oven
Condition: New
Subtitle: An Anti-Lecture
Author: Ilan Stavans
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781625343581
ISBN: 9781625343581
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 30/03/2018
Description: After a chance meeting with a shaman in Colombia, Ilan Stavans, the highly regarded literary scholar, found himself in the Amazon rainforest. He had reluctantly agreed to participate in a religious ceremony that involved taking the hallucinogen ayahuasca. Even though he considered himself a skeptic and a rational intellectual, as someone whose worldview was defined by his education and his heritage as a Mexican Jew, Stavans found that the ritual pushed him to reconsider many of his basic understandings, including his perceptions of indigenous cultures in Latin America, as well as his career as teacher, thinker, and artist. This one-act play is delivered in the form of a lecture that mimics the author's startling spiritual journey. The book includes twenty-five bold images, in color and black and white, which capture the author's performance of the play.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 178mm
Item Weight: 233g
Release Year: 2018

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