American Book Awards あめりかんぶっくあわーど
Edition 33 (2012)
Winners
12 peopleA memoir that weaves food writing, war reporting, and married life across Baghdad and Beirut.
A memoir where the dinner table and the war zone sit in the same frame.
Arlene Kim's debut poetry collection explores immigration, memory, and myth through layered, dreamlike poems.
Language mythologizes memory and reshapes the idea of home.
A poetry collection that looks for a place to stand in a world where borders of nation, religion, race, and history blur. It treats global movement and loss as motion in language.
Poetry searches for a place inside a world in motion.
A study that reads Black superheroes not as disposable pop culture but as a problem of racial representation and political imagination. It moves across comics and screen culture to rethink the hero figure.
Black superheroes become a way to rethink racial representation.
An environmental study of violence that unfolds slowly and stays hard to see. It reads damage borne by poor and displaced people through politics and literature.
Invisible harm is reframed as an environmental justice issue.
A short-story collection set against the myths of the American West, tracing violence and the possibility of reconciliation. It reexamines the wounds hidden inside masculine roles.
The myths of masculinity are unraveled in the American West.
An oral-history collection in which Nelson Island elders describe place through stories and names. It records a community where landscape, livelihood, and language are inseparable.
Place names and stories become a map of memory.
A book centered on the idea of post-blackness, resisting any single model of Black identity. It uses dialogue and examples to widen the frame on American racial consciousness.
Black identity is not reduced to a single mold.
A novel set around a 9/11 memorial design competition, where prejudice against a Muslim architect collides with public memory and politics. Private choice is turned into public symbol.
A post-9/11 city drama where memory meets prejudice.
A work that rewrites memory of a dead sister through poems and translation. It treats loss as something held in the seams of language itself.
Loss is spoken again through poetry and translation.
A poetic chronicle of the Amistad rebels that gives the story choral and epistolary form.
The Amistad story unfolds through many voices.