{"id":52204,"date":"2017-03-07T19:46:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T19:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52204"},"modified":"2017-03-07T23:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T23:42:29","slug":"longwood-announces-2017-dos-passos-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52204","title":{"rendered":"Longwood announces 2017 Dos Passos Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Longwood announces 2017 Dos Passos Award Winner<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Longwood University<\/a>
\nFarmville, Virginia
\n2017-02-22<\/p>\n

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Danzy Senna<\/a>, a novelist and short story author who burst onto the American literary scene in 1998 with her critically acclaimed first novel Caucasia<\/em><\/a>, will be awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature<\/a> this spring at Longwood University.<\/p>\n

\u201cDanzy is a writer whose work stands out for its constant focus on identity, both as an American and as a person of biracial heritage,\u201d said Dr. David Magill<\/a>, associate professor of English at Longwood and chair of the Dos Passos Prize Committee. \u201cShe challenges readers on the values of their personal identity, and explores the idea of Americanism<\/a> in a similar vein as John Dos Passos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senna is the 35th recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, which is awarded annually by the Longwood Department of English and Modern Languages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Caucasia<\/em> is a coming-of-age story about a biracial girl in the mid-1970s who struggles with racial identity in a tumultuous world. It won the Alex Award<\/a> from the American Library Association<\/a> and was named a L.A. Times<\/em> Best Book of the Year.<\/p>\n

Since her second novel, Symptomatic<\/em><\/a>, a psychological thriller published in 2004, Senna has written an autobiographical work on her own biracial parentage\u2014her mother is the celebrated poet Fanny Howe<\/a> and her father is an African-American scholar. She further explores the topic in her 2011 short-story collection, You Are Free<\/em><\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danzy Senna, a novelist and short story author who burst onto the American literary scene in 1998 with her critically acclaimed first novel “Caucasia,” will be awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature this spring at Longwood University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,20],"tags":[1340,26369,26368,26367],"class_list":["post-52204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-danzy-senna","tag-david-magill","tag-john-dos-passos-prize-for-literature","tag-longwood-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52216,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52204\/revisions\/52216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}