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Jean Franco (March 31, 1924 – December 14, 2022) was a British-born American academic and literary critic known for her pioneering work on Latin American literature.[1] Educated at Manchester and London, she taught at London, Essex (where she was the university's first professor of Latin American literature),[2] and Stanford, and was latterly professor emerita at Columbia University.
Jean Franco's research was wide-ranging and voluminous. She was among the first English-speaking Latin Americanists to write seriously about Latin American literature. She particularly focused on women and women's writing and was a pioneer of Latin American cultural studies.[3]
Franco died on December 14, 2022, at the age of 98.[1][4][5]
- In 1992 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex.[6]
- In 1996 she won a PEN award for lifetime contribution to the dissemination of Latin American literature in English.[7]
- In 2000 the Latin American Studies Association awarded her the Kalman Silvert Award for her contributions to Latin American Studies.[8]
- In 2002 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester.
- Her book The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City was awarded the Bolton-Johnson Prize by the Conference of Latin American Historians for the best work in English on the History of Latin America published in 2003.
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- The Modern Culture of Latin America (1967)
- An Introduction to Latin American Literature (1969)
- Spanish American Literature Since Independence (1973)
- César Vallejo. The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence (1976)
- Plotting Women. Gender and Representation in Mexico (1989)
- Marcar diferencias, cruzar fronteras: ensayos (1996)
- Critical Passions: Selected Essays, edited by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman (1999)
- The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War (2002)
- Cruel Modernity (2013)
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