{"id":25400,"date":"2016-11-07T16:34:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T21:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=25400"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:55:12","slug":"pineda-wins-malcolm-lowry-fine-arts-literary-essay-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2016\/11\/07\/pineda-wins-malcolm-lowry-fine-arts-literary-essay-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Pineda Wins Malcolm Lowry Fine Arts Literary Essay Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/10\/pineda_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/10\/pineda_resized-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"pineda_resized\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/10\/pineda_resized-516x300.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/10\/pineda_resized.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adela-e-pineda\/\">Adela Pineda,<\/a><span> Director of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\">Latin American Studies Program<\/a><span> at the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/\">Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a>\u00a0<span>won the\u00a0<\/span><span>Premio Bellas Artes de Ensayo Literario Malcolm Lowry (Malcolm Lowry Fine Arts Literary Essay Award) from<\/span>\u00a0the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.<\/p>\n<p>Pineda won the prize for her\u00a0<span>manuscript\u00a0<\/span><em>Las Traves\u00edas de John Steinbeck Por M\u00e9xico, El Cine y Las Vicisitudes Del Progreso.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The essay\u00a0approaches several works by Steinbeck, including the novella\u00a0<em>The Pearl,<\/em>(1947), the novel\u00a0<em>The Wayward Bus<\/em>\u00a0(1947); the travelogue\u00a0<em>The Log of the Sea of Cortez,<\/em>(1941), as well as three cinematographic productions:\u00a0<em>The Forgotten Village<\/em>, directed by Herbert Kline (1941), the adaptation of\u00a0<em>The Pearl,\u00a0<\/em>directed by Emilio Fern\u00e1ndez (1948), and\u00a0<em>Viva Zapata!<\/em>, directed by Elia Kazan (1952).<\/p>\n<p>More than an exclusive analysis of literary and cinematic representation, Pineda\u2019s essay offers readers a panorama of the transnational contexts in which the mentioned works and films emerged. It also considers Steinbeck\u2019s literary work in relation with film and Mexico. Through archival research, the essay weaves together the ideological tendencies which informed both Steinbeck\u2019s novels from this period and the film production, and gives an account of the political, social and economic determinants which formed the conditions in which they were produced. The essay distinguishes Steinbeck\u2019s agency during this historical framework. As such, the approach has more to do with writing an intellectual history of Mexican-U.S. relations\u00a0with\u00a0Steinbeck \u00a0as protagonist,\u00a0than with an analysis exclusively focused on film and literature.<\/p>\n<p><span>The Malcolm Lowry Essay Prize is granted by the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes). The essays\/manuscripts that are considered are based on any foreign author\u00a0who wrote\u00a0on Mexico or was involved with Mexican Culture. The prize \u00a0has been awarded to important writers in previous years such as Jose Emilio Pacheco and Ignacio Padilla.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pineda\u2019s research interests focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish American literature, culture, and film and on the relationship between politics and culture. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adela-e-pineda\/\">Learn more about her here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Adela Pineda won the award for <i>Las Traves\u00edas de John Steinbeck Por M\u00e9xico, El Cine y Las Vicisitudes Del Progreso.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414],"tags":[9287,8810,8982,9841],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25562,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25400\/revisions\/25562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}