{"id":14232,"date":"2020-12-18T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/?p=14232"},"modified":"2020-12-23T22:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T22:55:34","slug":"jsis-affiliate-faculty-maya-angela-smiths-book-senegal-abroad-awarded-mla-aldo-and-jeanne-scaglione-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/news\/jsis-affiliate-faculty-maya-angela-smiths-book-senegal-abroad-awarded-mla-aldo-and-jeanne-scaglione-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Angela Smith&#8217;s book, Senegal Abroad, awarded MLA&#8217;s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Affiliate faculty\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/frenchitalian.washington.edu\/people\/maya-angela-eipe-smith\"><span class=\"il\">Maya<\/span> Angela Eipe\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Smith&#8217;s<\/span><\/a>\u00a0book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uwpress.wisc.edu\/books\/5763.htm\"><em>Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and\u00a0Diasporic Imaginaries<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0is a winner of The Modern\u00a0Language Association&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mla.org\/Resources\/Career\/MLA-Grants-and-Awards\/Award-Submissions-and-Nominations\/Competitions-for-MLA-Publication-Awards\/Annual-Prizes-with-Competitions-in-2021\/Aldo-and-Jeanne-Scaglione-Prize-for-French-and-Francophone-Studies\">Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-copy\">Her volume explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Drawing on extensive interviews with people of Senegalese heritage, Maya Angela Smith contends that they are notable in their capacity for movement and in their multifaceted approach to speech, shaping their identity as they purposefully switch between languages and structure. Offering a mix of poignant, funny, reflexive, introspective, and witty stories, <i>Senegal Abroad<\/i> blurs the lines between the utility and pleasure of language, allowing a more nuanced understanding of why and how Senegalese move.<\/p>\n<p>Maya is an affiliate JSIS faculty in the\u00a0Latin American and Caribbean Studies and African Studies Programs, and previously served on the Center for Global Studies Executive Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Affiliate faculty\u00a0Maya Angela Eipe\u00a0Smith&#8217;s\u00a0book,\u00a0Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and\u00a0Diasporic Imaginaries,\u00a0is a winner of The Modern\u00a0Language Association&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies. Her volume explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Drawing on extensive interviews with people of Senegalese heritage, Maya Angela Smith contends<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/news\/jsis-affiliate-faculty-maya-angela-smiths-book-senegal-abroad-awarded-mla-aldo-and-jeanne-scaglione-prize\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":637,"featured_media":14234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Maya Angela Smith&#039;s book, Senegal Abroad, awarded MLA&#039;s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize - Center for Global Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/news\/jsis-affiliate-faculty-maya-angela-smiths-book-senegal-abroad-awarded-mla-aldo-and-jeanne-scaglione-prize\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maya Angela Smith&#039;s book, Senegal Abroad, awarded MLA&#039;s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize - Center for Global Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Affiliate faculty\u00a0Maya Angela Eipe\u00a0Smith&#8217;s\u00a0book,\u00a0Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and\u00a0Diasporic Imaginaries,\u00a0is a winner of The Modern\u00a0Language Association&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies. 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