November 2023

Kathryn Grande, “Linking the Before, During, and After: Cultural Memory in Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl,” 1st Place

Kathryn Grande, “Linking the Before, During, and After: Cultural Memory in Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl” In her award-winning two-part book The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick offers a work of Holocaust fiction that cuts into readers with inconceivable sadness and truth. In “The Shawl,” the gut-wrenching short story at the outset of the book, our protagonist Rosa… Read more Kathryn Grande, “Linking the Before, During, and After: Cultural Memory in Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl,” 1st Place