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Excellent Cambria Press Book Review! Journal of American-East Asian Relations finds “much to commend” in Japanese and Nikkei at Home and Abroad!

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Nobuko Adachi on the excellent book review of Japanese and Nikkei at Home and Abroad: Negotiating Identities in a Global World by the Journal of American-East Asian Relations. The review states that there is “much to commend. In addition to its contribution to the literature on immigration and transnationalism, its highly accessible style and detailed bibliography make...

Outstanding Cambria Press Book Review! Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade highly praised by the Journal of Latin American Studies!

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Ana Lucia Araujo on the laudatory review of Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images by the Journal of Latin American Studies. The review states that: “The scholarly quality of the dozen essays included here is uniformly high … The quality and variety of the contributions make this book a desirable purchase for research libraries,...

Happy New Year! Usher in 2013 with a Nobel Prize Winner!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! The 2013 MLA annual convention in Boston promises to be an especially exciting one because Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gao Xingjian will be attending! Many new titles for Cambria Press will be showcased, including Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian’s long-awaited book Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation. There are two MLA sessions being held for Gao Xingjian: 1)    ...

Cambria Press Book Review: Public Memory of Slavery — Path-breaking Work of Original Research!

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Ana Lucia Araujo on yet another excellent review of her book, Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic, by The Public Historian. The journal review describes Professor Araujo’s book as “a path-breaking work of original research in which Ana Lucia Araujo illuminates the processes, politics, and economics of forgetting and remembering slavery...

Cambria Press Book Review: The Sex Goddess in American Film — A Model for Other Books!

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Jessica Hope Jordan on the laudatory review of her book, The Sex Goddess in American Film, 1930–1965: Jean Harlow, Mae West, Lana Turner, and Jayne Mansfield, by the Journal of Popular Culture. The book review commends the book because it “makes unique contributions to popular film studies.” It further adds that while “too many books on...

Outstanding Book Review for Liu Zaifu’s Reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber

Cambria Press congratulates Liu Zaifu and Shu Yunzhong on the recent outstanding review by China Review International on Reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber. The book by the famous literary and culture critic, Liu Zaifu, was published originally in Chinese, and this much-anticipated English version was translated by Professor Shu Yunzhong. The foreword is by Gao Xingjian, recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize...

Rave Reviews for Behind Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet: A Life in Letters by Times Literary Supplement and Transnational Literature

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Janis Haswell on the recent rave review by Transnational Literature of her two-volume book, Behind Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet: A Life in Letters. The first volume delves into the early years 1940–1965, and the second volume examines the years 1966–1978. The book review journal is a testament to how Professor’s Haswell’s painstaking work is a major...

Book Highlights for Latin American Studies (LASA 2012)

Cambria Press would like to highlight a few books, which have garnered excellent book reviews, for scholars in Latin American studies. These books would be valuable additions to academic libraries not only for their Latin American studies collections but also for their history and literature collections as well. In addition to the two recent posted reviews on Cuban–Latin American Relations...

Rave Review for Genus Envy: Nationalities, Identities, and the Performing Body of Work

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Thomas Connolly on the rave review by the Eugene O’Neill Review of his book, Genus Envy: Nationalities, Identities, and the Performing Body of Work. The book is commended for being “erudite, provocative, and witty,” which is not surprising given that “Connolly is well known to enthusiasts of O’Neill and to fans of NoëlCoward as well, being...

Outstanding Review for David Foster: The Satirist of Australia

Cambria Press congratulates Dr. Susan Lever (general editor of the Cambria Australian Literature Series) on the recent outstanding review of her book, David Foster: The Satirist of Australia, by Australian Literary Studies, which praises the work—among other reasons––because “Lever begins the very necessary work of bridging the gap between generalist studies of European or British satire and the idiosyncrasies of...

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