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Richard Beale Davis Prize, 2009–10

Richard Beale Davis Prize, 2009–10 Joseph Rezek Honorable Mention: Peter Jaros From a rich field of excellent scholarship published over the last two years in Early American Literature, the Richard Beale Davis Prize for the best article published during 2009­10 is awarded to Joseph Rezek, whose essay, "The Orations on the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Uses of Print in the Early Black Atlantic" (EAL 45.3), combines astute close reading, a keen awareness of the critical context, deep learning, and broad speculation, in an elegant manner that exemplifies the best in early American literary research. Rezek's penetrating essay offers an important revisionary approach to the literature of the early black Atlantic, emphasizing the circulation of printed texts in addition to the circulation of writers as a key methodological paradigm, and drawing our attention to a valuable and understudied archive. These orations "utilized print to announce their place in the black Atlantic world and through that announcement to shape, reciprocally, the contours of that world." The topic is intrinsically important, and the approach has broad implications for future inquiry. Rezek received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2009, where his dissertation was entitled "Tales from Elsewhere: Fiction at a Proximate Distance in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Richard Beale Davis Prize, 2009–10

Looby, Christopher.
Early American Literature , Volume 46 (2) – Jul 3, 2011
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Joseph Rezek Honorable Mention: Peter Jaros From a rich field of excellent scholarship published over the last two years in Early American Literature, the Richard Beale Davis Prize for the best article published during 2009­10 is awarded to Joseph Rezek, whose essay, "The Orations on the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Uses of Print in the Early Black Atlantic" (EAL 45.3), combines astute close reading, a keen awareness of the critical context, deep learning, and broad speculation, in an elegant manner that exemplifies the best in early American literary research. Rezek's penetrating essay offers an important revisionary approach to the literature of the early black Atlantic, emphasizing the circulation of printed texts in addition to the circulation of writers as a key methodological paradigm, and drawing our attention to a valuable and understudied archive. These orations "utilized print to announce their place in the black Atlantic world and through that announcement to shape, reciprocally, the contours of that world." The topic is intrinsically important, and the approach has broad implications for future inquiry. Rezek received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2009, where his dissertation was entitled "Tales from Elsewhere: Fiction at a Proximate Distance in the

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