The Darwin T. Turner Award is given in recognition of the year's best essay on 20th- and 21st-century literature. Congratulations to this year's recipient
Richard Schur
for his article "Post-Soul Aesthetics in Contemporary African American Art," which appeared in the Winter 2007 issue.
Dr. Schur is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Drury University.Previous Recipients include:
2007 Guy Mark Foster
"'Do I look like someone you can come home to from where you may be going?': Remapping Interracial Anxiety in Octavia Butler's Kindred" (Spring 2007)
2006 Cedric Gael Bryant
"Reading the Gothic in Wright's 'Big Boy Leaves Home,' Morrison's Beloved, and Gomez's Gilda" (Winter 2005)
2005 Stefanie K. Dunning
"'Ironic Soil': Recuperative Rhythms and Negotiated Nationalisms" (Spring/Summer 2005)
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