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#BookReview of CONTEMPORARY #CHICANA LITERATURE by journal Contemporary Women’s Writing

Cambria Press is pleased to announce that Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script has been reviewed in the journal Contemporary Women’s Writing (published by Oxford University Press), and we congratulate Dr. Cristina Herrera on the outstanding book review. The review states that “The strengths of Herrera’s work are undeniable. She offers insightful and nuanced interpretations of selected canonical Chicana writers […]...

Asian Studies Scholars, Act Quickly! April 30 is coming up soon!

Asian studies scholars, the AAS 35% discount on all hardcover titles ends very soon (April 30)! Order TODAY at http://www.cambriapress.com (coupon code AAS2015) for significant savings on books like: The History of Chinese Buddhist Bibliography  Tanya Storch “This book deserves a place on the bookshelf of every specialist in pre-modern Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Buddhism.” – John Kieschnick, Stanford University Japan’s Shrinking...

Monumenta Nipponica Praises Ooku, The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women for having “much to recommend it” – Read the Outstanding Book Review

  Cambria Press congratulates Professors Cecilia Segawa Seigle and Linda H. Chance (University of Pennsylvania) on the outstanding review of their book Ooku, The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women in the journal Monumenta Nipponica, which states that “a useful and essential supplement to [Conrad Totman’s] Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu and demonstrates that at least by the second half of...

MCLC: “The Chinese Prose Poem’s bibliography, a feat of compilation stands as a scholarly resource in and of itself.” -> Read the Outstanding Book Review

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Nicholas A. Kaldis (Binghamton University (SUNY)) on the outstanding review of his book The Chinese Prose Poem: A Study of Lu Xun’s Wild Grass (Yecao) in the journal MCLC, which states that “the book’s substantial sixty-page bibliography [is] a feat of compilation that stands as a scholarly resource in and of itself. Clearly, The Chinese Prose Poem is...

Southeast Asian Studies Praises Sinophone Malaysian Literature for Being “Laudable” – Read the Outstanding Book Review

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Alison Groppe (University of Oregon) on the outstanding review of her book Sinophone Malaysian Literature: Not Made in China in the journal Southeast Asian Studies, which states that “this laudable book-length study has laid a solid foundation upon which scholars can investigate further to yield fresher insights about the uneasy making of modern Sinophone Southeast Asian...

#ISA2015 Essential Titles

NEW TITLE: International Relations and the Arctic Increased global interest in the Arctic poses challenges to contemporary international relations, and many questions surround exactly why and how Arctic countries are asserting their influence and claims over their northern reaches and why and how non-Arctic states are turning their attention to the region. This first systematic study of Arctic international relations,...

International Relations and the Arctic: “A Fantastic and Elaborate Collection” – Polar Record

Congratulations to Robert W. Murray and Anita Dey Nuttall on the glowing review their book International Relations and the Arctic has earned in the prestigious journal Polar Record. The book review praises the massive 742-page tome for being “right on time” and “a fantastic and elaborate collection.” The review states that “The good news about the present volume is that...

#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...

Cambria Press Book Reviews: Sinophone Malaysian Literature is “laudable” and “exceptionally well-researched”!

Cambria Press congratulates Alison Groppe, assistant professor of Chinese literature at the University of Oregon, on the excellent reviews of her book, Sinophone Malaysian Literature: Not Made in China. The premier library academic journal CHOICE praises the book because it is “exceptionally well-researched.” The journal Southeast Asian Studies also commends the book for being well-researched, adding that “[w]ith its comprehensive coverage,...

BRASA 2014 – Catch Ana Lucia Araujo’s Session this Saturday at King’s College!

Catch Ana Lucia Araujo’s session at BRASA! Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University) will be chairing a panel on slavery this Saturday at the BRASA Congress. Dr. Araujo is the author and editor of Public Memory of Slavery and Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade–both books have earned rave reviews in the top journals. Dr. Araujo is also the general editor...

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