The Darwin T. Turner Award is given in recognition of the year's best essay in African American Review.
Congratulations to this year's recipientAliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
for her article "'Simply a Menaced Boy': Analogizing Color, Undoing Dominance in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room," which appeared in the Fall 2007 issue. Dr. Abdur-Rahman is Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University.
Previous Recipients include:
2007 Michele Elam
"Dunbar's Children" (Summer 2007)
"The Strangest Freaks of Despotism': Queer Sexuality in African American Slave Narratives" (Summer 2006)
2005 C. C. O'Brien
"Cosmopolitanism in Georgia Douglas Johnson's Anti-Lynching Literature" (Winter 2004)
2004 Granville Ganter
" 'He Made Us Laugh Some': Frederick Douglass's Humor" (Winter 2003)
2003 Linda Selzer
"Master-Slave Dialectics in Charles Johnson's 'The Education of Mingo' " (Spring 2003)
2002 Anna Brickhouse
"Nella Larsen and the Intertextual Geography of Quicksand" (Winter 2001)
2001 Adam Gussow
" 'Make My Getaway': The Blues Lives of Black Minstrels in W. C. Handy's Father of the Blues" (Spring 2001)
2000 James Christmann
"Raising Voices, Lifting Shadows: Competing Voice-Paradigms in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy" (Spring 2000)
1999 Anne Stavney
" 'Mothers of Tomorrow': The New Negro Renaissance and the Politics of Maternal Representation" (Winter 1998)
1998 James C. McKelly
"The Double Truth, Ruth: Do the Right Thing and the Culture of Ambiguity" (Summer 1998)
1997 Elizabeth M. Cannon
"Following the Traces of Female Desire in Toni Morrison's Jazz" (Summer 1997)
1996 Edward M. Pavlić
"Syndetic Redemption: Above-Underground Emergence in David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident" (Summer 1996)
1995 George Hutchinson
"Mediating 'Race' and 'Nation': The Cultural Politics in The Messenger" (Winter 1994)
1994 Debra B. Silverman
"Nella Larsen's Quicksand: Untangling the Webs of Exoticism" (Winter 1993)
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