{"id":11627,"date":"2018-11-15T10:35:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/?p=11627"},"modified":"2018-11-15T10:35:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T18:35:35","slug":"ucr-professors-american-book-award-could-boost-other-inland-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/news\/ucr-professors-american-book-award-could-boost-other-inland-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"UCR professor\u2019s American Book Award could boost other Inland authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:;--awb-padding-right:;--awb-padding-bottom:;--awb-padding-left:;--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div style=\"width: 738px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/RPE-L-BOOKAWARD1-1.jpg?w=728\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"574\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author and UC Riverside Professor Rachelle Cruz gives a speech as she accepts an American Book Award on Sunday, Oct. 28. (Photo courtesy of Cati Porter, Inlandia Institute)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>UC Riverside Professor Rachelle Cruz accepted an American Book Award on Sunday, Oct. 28, an honor that the Inland literary community says is a milestone not just for her but also for the region.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz\u2019s poetry collection, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gods-Monsters-Hillary-Gravendyk-Prize\/dp\/0997093242\">God\u2019s Will for Monsters<\/a>,\u201d was among\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ABA-press-release-2018.pdf\">15 winners<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com\/\">Before Columbus Foundation<\/a>\u00a0chose to recognize for\u00a0 \u201coutstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America\u2019s diverse literary community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book centers around a shape-shifting figure from Filipino folklore called an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mythology.net\/monsters\/aswang\/\">aswang<\/a>, which Cruz uses to explore intimate topics like secrets, shame and what it means to be a \u201cwitch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The child of Filipino parents, she strove for a nuanced look at the traditional culture and how Catholic teachings had changed and marginalized it.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, she hopes her work will reverse misconceptions about the Inland region, which she said has long had excellent writers but isn\u2019t recognized for its talent.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pe.com\/2018\/10\/31\/uc-riverside-professors-american-book-award-could-boost-other-inland-authors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11629,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions\/11629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}