The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its eighteenth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies to Alexander C. Y. Huang, of Pennsylvania State University, for Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange, published by Columbia University Press. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding scholarly work that is written by a member of the association and that involves at least two literatures.
The prize is one of seventeen awards that will be presented on 7 January 2011 during the association's annual convention, to be held in Los Angeles. The members of the selection committee were Nicholas Brown (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago), chair; Carla Freccero (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz); and Alessia Ricciardi (Northwestern Univ.). The committee's citation for Huang's book reads:
Alexander C. Y. Huang's Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange maps new territory for the most promising project in comparative literature today. Huang's object is the movement of cultural forms across geographical space, but he regards such movement not as mere diffusion or even as exchange. Instead he examines the way movement across geographical and geopolitical fault lines reaches into cultural forms and changes their meanings from the inside, often revealing possibilities that had lain dormant, unnoticed, or submerged in the texts' cultures of origin. Remarkable not only for its sophistication but also for its scholarly depth, Chinese Shakespeares is a landmark in the renewal of comparative literature as a discipline.
Alexander C. Y. Huang is an associate professor of comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University; a research affiliate in literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the general editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook; and the vice president of the Association for Asian Performance. He coedited Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace and Class, Boundary, and Social Discourse in the Renaissance; he is also the editor of special issues for the Asian Theatre Journal and Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation. He is the cofounder and coeditor of two open-access performance archives, Global Shakespeares (http://globalshakespeares.org/) and Shakespeare Performance in Asia (http://web.mit.edu/shakespeare/asia/). Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange also received an honorable mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre.
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The prize is one of seventeen awards that will be presented on 7 January 2011 during the association's annual convention, to be held in Los Angeles. The members of the selection committee were Nicholas Brown (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago), chair; Carla Freccero (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz); and Alessia Ricciardi (Northwestern Univ.). The committee's citation for Huang's book reads:
Alexander C. Y. Huang's Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange maps new territory for the most promising project in comparative literature today. Huang's object is the movement of cultural forms across geographical space, but he regards such movement not as mere diffusion or even as exchange. Instead he examines the way movement across geographical and geopolitical fault lines reaches into cultural forms and changes their meanings from the inside, often revealing possibilities that had lain dormant, unnoticed, or submerged in the texts' cultures of origin. Remarkable not only for its sophistication but also for its scholarly depth, Chinese Shakespeares is a landmark in the renewal of comparative literature as a discipline.
Alexander C. Y. Huang is an associate professor of comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University; a research affiliate in literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the general editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook; and the vice president of the Association for Asian Performance. He coedited Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace and Class, Boundary, and Social Discourse in the Renaissance; he is also the editor of special issues for the Asian Theatre Journal and Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation. He is the cofounder and coeditor of two open-access performance archives, Global Shakespeares (http://globalshakespeares.org/) and Shakespeare Performance in Asia (http://web.mit.edu/shakespeare/asia/). Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange also received an honorable mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre.
More information here.
Buy the book here.
