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Language Professor Receives Book Award

Dr. Kimberly Nance

Dr. Kimberly A. Nance

Kimberly A. Nance, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, has won the Choice Outstanding Book Award for Can Literature Promote Justice? Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio. This award comes from one of the preeminent library journals in the United States. The book, an exploration of the relationship between ethics and literature, was published just after the 40th anniversary of testimonio, a genre loosely defined as political autobiography of Latin American activists who hope to bring about change by telling their life stories. Testimonial narrative has generated a great deal of excitement by scholars who posited it as a radical new form of literature. “Choice reviewed over seven thousand books last year. Of those, Kimberly Nance's book, Can Literature Promote Justice? Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio, is among the few that Choice named an Outstanding Academic Book of 2007,” said Betsy Phillips, Editorial Coordinator at Vanderbilt University Press. “In simple terms, this means that Choice believes Nance's book makes such an important contribution to her field that every academic library should own it."

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title - 2007

Every year, in print and online, Choice publishes a list of Outstanding Academic Titles that were reviewed during the previous calendar year. This prestigious list reflects the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community. In awarding Outstanding Academic Titles, the editors apply several criteria: overall excellence in presentation and scholarship, importance relative to other literature in the field, distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form, originality or uniqueness of treatment, value to undergraduate students, and importance in building undergraduate library collections.
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