The Association’s Awards Jury for the best essay in Inter-American Studies completed in 2013 or 2014 is proud to announce the winning entry:
Earl E. Fitz (Vanderbilt University): “Native American Literature and Its Place in the Inter-American Project.”
The essay was published in Comparative American Studies 11.2 (June 2013): 124-47.
Congratulations to Earl E. Fitz and best wishes to all Association members who submitted their work for this competition.
Here is an abstract of the essay:
Issues of Native American literature and culture are placed in a comparative and inter-American perspective, where texts from Canada, the United States, Spanish America, and Brazil are discussed and contrasted. Native American texts are analyzed in the context of inter-American literary study, which is defined as an interdisciplinary approach to the literatures of North, Central, and South America. The argument is made that Native American literature represents the cultural and historical foundation of the entire inter-American project.
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