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Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Jeanine Leane

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri woman from southwest New South Wales. She has published a book of poetry Dark Secrets (2010), which won the Scanlon Prize, and a book of stories, Purple Threads (2011), which won the David Unaipon Award. Excerpt from Cambria Press Publication Giving This Country a Memory (Chapter 3: Jeanine Leane) “The white settler home was a site...

Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Romaine Moreton

Romaine Moreton is a member of the Goernpul Jagara people of Stradbroke Island, which is off the south coast of Queensland, and the Bunjalung people from the coastal area of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. Her three books of poetry, The Callused Stick of Wanting, post me to the prime minister, and Poems from a Homeland, have attracted...

Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Kim Scott

Kim Scott is one of Australia’s best-known indigenous writers and has published three novels, True Country, Benang, and That Deadman Dance. Excerpt from Cambria Press Publication: Giving This Country a Memory (Chapter 1: Kim Scott) “Scott’s work reminds non-indigenous audiences of their proximity to indigenous peoples and their complex relationship with Aboriginal sovereignty. Indeed, in his interview he challenged the primacy...

#Humanities Scholarship – Important and Growing

An excellent article from Inside Higher Ed regarding scholarship in the humanities, in which William (Bro) Adams, the head of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), said on Thursday that he wants to push humanities scholarship to become more directly connected to helping address the nation’s contemporary problems. There are also encouraging numbers from today’s Inside Higher Ed article...

#MLA15 Mapping Literature and Linguistics – E. K. Tan Presenting Tomorrow @ 1:45 p.m.

  E. K Tan, author of Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World , will be presiding tomorrow at 1:45 p.m. at the session Mapping Literature and Linguistics: The Politics of Place and History in Malaysia and Singapore . See also http://goo.gl/0yF8Mh Visit the Cambria Press booth (402) in the book exhibit hall to see this highly...

#MLA15 Fiction of Mo Yan: Post–Nobel Prize Assessments – Paul Manfredi Presiding Today @ 5:15 p.m.

Paul Manfredi, author of Modern Poetry in China: A Visual-Verbal Dynamic, will be presiding today at 5:15 p.m. at the session The Fiction of Mo Yan: Post–Nobel Prize Assessments. See also http://goo.gl/HmWvaX Visit the Cambria Press booth (402) in the book exhibit hall and enter our #MLA15 book-giveaway draw for a chance to win this book! LIKE Cambria Press on...

#MLA15 On Mo Yan’s Fiction – Shelley Chan will be presenting today @5:15 p.m.

Shelley Chan, author of A Subversive Voice in China: The Fictional World of Mo Yan, will be presenting today at 5:15 p.m. at the session Memory as Absence, Rhetoric, Identity, and Critique in Mo Yan’s Fiction. See also http://goo.gl/9OLkXW Visit the Cambria Press booth (402) in the book exhibit hall and enter our #MLA15 book-giveaway draw for a chance to...

#MLA15 Contemporary Chinese Poetry and the Other Arts – Paul Manfredi Presiding Tomorrow @ 1:45 p.m.

Paul Manfredi, author of Modern Poetry in China: A Visual-Verbal Dynamic, will be presiding tomorrow at 1:45 p.m. at the session Contemporary Chinese Poetry and the Other Arts. See also http://goo.gl/HmWvaX Visit the Cambria Press booth (402) in the book exhibit hall and enter our #MLA15 book-giveaway draw for a chance to win this book! LIKE Cambria Press on Facebook...

#MLA15 “Local Literatures Transnationally” – Brigitta Olubas will be presenting tomorrow @10:15 a.m.

Brigitta Olubas, author of the widely praised Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist, will be presenting tomorrow at 10:15 a.m. at the session Local Literatures Transnationally: Australian and New Zealand Literatures in Global Connection.  See also http://goo.gl/EnFDeT Visit the Cambria Press booth (402) in the book exhibit hall and enter our #MLA15 book-giveaway draw for a chance to win...

#MLA15 Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist

“Not just an intellectual exercise, or a scholarly pleasure, but also a profound relief to read,” is how this first-ever monograph on Shirley Hazzard has been described. Widely praised this book, which is in the Cambria Australian Literature Series headed by Susan Lever (University of Sydney), is also an important resource for scholars in women’s studies and world literature. Browse Shirley...

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