Katherine Singer Kovács Prize

Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize is a literary prize awarded annually in honour of Katherine Singer Kovács to any book that is published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. The prize was established in 1989 with a monetary gift from Joseph and Mimi B. Singer, who were the parents of Kovacs. Kovacs was a specialist in Spanish and Latin American literature and film. The awarding of the prize is managed by a Prize Selection Committee of the Modern Language Association.

Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize Winners Year Author Title Publisher, date Refs1989 Roberto González EchevarríaMyth and archive: a theory of Latin American narrativeCambridge Univ. Press, 1990 1990Regina HarrisonSigns, Songs, and Memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua Language and CultureUniversity of Texas Press,19891991George MariscalContradictory Subjects Quevedo, Cervantes, and Seventeenth-Century Spanish CultureCornell University Press, 1991William Rowe, Vivian SchellingMemory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin AmericaVerso Books, 19911992Antonio Benítez-RojoThe Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern PerspectiveDuke University Press, 1992Francine MasielloBetween Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern ArgentinaUniversity of Nebraska Press, 19921993Margarita ZamoraReading ColumbusUniversity of California Press, 19931994Candace SlaterDance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian ImaginationUniversity of Chicago Press, 19941995Walter D. MignoloThe Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and ColonizationUniversity of Michigan Press, 19951996Diana SorensenFacundo and the Construction of Argentine CultureUniversity of Texas Press, 19961997Kathryn Joy McKnightThe Mystic of Tunja: The Writings of Madre Castillo, 1671–1742University of Massachusetts Press, 19971998Frances AparicioListening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican CulturesWesleyan University Press, 1997Rebecca HaidtEmbodying Enlightenment: Knowing the Body in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature and CultureSt. Martin's Press, 19981999Idelber AvelarThe untimely presentDuke University Press, 19992000Catherine JulienReading Inca historyUniversity of Iowa press, 20002001Georgina Dopico BlackPerfect wives, other women Duke Univ. Press, 2001Francine R. MasielloThe Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal CrisisDuke University Press, 20012002Noël ValisThe Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern SpainDuke University Press, 20032003Diana Taylor The archive and the repertoire Duke University Press, 20032004Sibylle Fischer Modernity disavowed Duke University Press, 20042005Rubén Gallo Mexican modernity: The avant-garde and the technological revolution MIT Press, 20052006William P. Childers Transnational CervantesUniversity of Toronto Press, 20062007Rolena AdornoThe polemics of possession in Spanish American narrativeYale University Press, 20082008Nicolás Wey Gómez The tropics of empire: Why Columbus sailed south to the IndiesMIT Press, 20082009Lisa Voigt Writing captivity in the early modern AtlanticUniversity of North Carolina Press, 20092010Stephanie MerrimThe spectacular city, Mexico, and colonial Hispanic literary cultureUniversity of Texas Press, 20102011E. Michael GerliCelestina and the Ends of DesireUniversity of Toronto Press, 20102012Joanne RappaportTom CumminsBeyond the Lettered CityDuke University Press, 20122013Mabel MorañaArguedas/Vargas Llosa: Dilemas y ensamblajesPalgrave Macmillan, 20132014Stephanie Sieburth Survival Songs: Conchita Piquer’s Coplas and Franco’s Regime of TerrorUniversity of Toronto Press, 20142015Enrique FernándezAnxieties of interiority and dissection in early modern SpainUniversity of Toronto Press, 2015Anne LambrightAndean Truths: Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post–Shining Path PeruLiverpool University Press, 20152016Nancy J. Gates MadsenTrauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling: Listening to Silences in Postdictatorship ArgentinaUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 20162017B. Christine ArceMéxico’s Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican WomenSUNY Press, 20172018Maite CondeFoundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in BrazilUniversity of California Press,20182019Nicholas R. JonesStaging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern SpainPenn State University Press, 20192020Anna Kathryn KendrickHumanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century SpainNew York University Shanghai, 20202021Samuel AmagoBasura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary SpainUniv. of Virginia Press, 20212022Éric Morales-FranceschiniThe Epic of Cuba Libre: The Mambí, Mythopoetics, and LiberationUniversity of Virginia Press, 20222023Catherine BrownRemember the Hand: Manuscription in Early Medieval IberiaFordham University Press, 2023Isabel C. GómezCannibal Translation: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin AmericaNorthwestern University Press, 2023Amy E. WrightSerial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to NowVanderbilt University Press, 2023

See also Katherine Singer Kovács Society for Cinema and Media Studies Book Award

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