Journal article
Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2024
Early American literature, Vol.60(3), pp.373-375
09/01/2025
DOI: 10.1353/eal.2025.a972328
Abstract
Elizabeth A. Bohls Honorable Mention: Ellen Malenas Ledoux Honorable Mention: Leopold Lippert The prize committee of the Modern Language Association's Forum on Early American Literature-Ben Bascom, Tara Bynum, and Drew Lopenzina-has awarded the Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2024 to Elizabeth A. Bohls for "John Marrant's Nova Scotia Journal Writes Displaced Communities." Among these essays, though, Elizabeth Bohls's article, "John Marrant's Nova Scotia Journal Writes Displaced Communities," distinguishes itself for its attention to John Marrant, a freeborn Black itinerant preacher who is best-known for his captivity narrative, "A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, A Black." Lippert maps Thomas Digges's use of various transatlantic spaces in which his protagonist, Alonso, travels; it seems, to Lippert, that Digges's aim is to use "intimacy as public affect to reorganize the bodies of some men into a fantasy of (proto-)democratic social form while it dismisses the bodies of others as politically expendable" (Lippert 562; emphasis in original).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2024
- Creators
- Ben BascomTara BynumDrew Lopenzina
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Early American literature, Vol.60(3), pp.373-375
- DOI
- 10.1353/eal.2025.a972328
- ISSN
- 0012-8163
- eISSN
- 1534-147X
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2025
- Academic Unit
- African American Studies; English
- Record Identifier
- 9985015823702771
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