American Book Awards あめりかんぶっくあわーど
Edition 18 (1997)
Winners
14 peopleA Chicano poetry collection that intertwines cultural memory, political anger, and identity.
A study of Black religious and cultural life that treats gospel music as a strategy of survival.
A poetry collection that finds wonder and unease in everyday urban life while tracing loneliness and fragile hope.
A hybrid performance text of poems, prophecies, and border talk that treats migration and cultural conflict as live art.
A novel rooted in Native life and place, using mystery and landscape to explore identity and belonging.
A politically charged poetry collection about labor, oppression, solidarity, and the longing for justice.
A historical novel set in northern Mexico on the eve of revolution, marked by family rupture, land, and violence.
A provocative essay collection that attacks race as a social construct and argues for radical abolition of whiteness.
A memoir of migration and homecoming that traces a Malaysian girl's journey into Asian American womanhood.
An anthology that maps South Asian American experience through fiction, essays, poetry, and photography.
A novel about art, grief, and murder in New York's art world, built around friendship and obsession.
A historical novel set in the Great Depression that follows comic-strip culture, ambition, and corruption.
A scholarly study of Black public life that asks what responsibility intellectuals bear in American society.
An anthology and critical portrait of women who shaped the Beat era, restoring their influence to the movement's history.