Debut book earns prestigious honor
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Aaron Oforlea’s first book, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity, has earned the College Language Association’s Creative Scholarship Award for 2018. The international honor, whose previous winners include renowned scholars from Harvard, Penn and Stanford, recognizes excellence in literary criticism and is awarded at the organization’s annual convention.. The nominations are blind, so Oforlea’s guard was down when the honor came his way.
“I was sitting at my table not paying too much attention to the awards banquet when I noticed everyone looking at me, so I asked the women sitting next to me, ‘Did they say my name?’” Oforlea says. “I couldn’t believe it. I was overwhelmed with joy.”
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