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Cambria Press Book Review: Public Memory of Slavery by Afro-Asia – See this book at the 2012 ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia!

Public Memory of Slavery:  Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic by Ana Lucia Araujo has earned yet another rave review! Afro-Asia commends the book for having “the virtue of pioneer works” and states that “one of the most important contributions of the text is the constant confrontation between the knowledge consolidated by the historiography and the processes of memory disputes”. Be...

Distinction between Sinophone and Sinosphere by Victor H. Mair

Professor Victor H. Mair recently engaged in a thought-provoking discussion of the distinction between Sinophone and Sinophere on the Language Log. He said “I’ve been in the thick of the Sinophone revolution and have mentioned it several times on Language Log (e.g., here), but now I’ve become acquainted with another new term, ‘Sinosphere,’ and wonder how they are related.” Regarding the origins of...

Cambria Press author Shelley Chan interviewed by Inside Higher Ed for Mo Yan Article

Read the Inside Higher Ed article about Mo Yan in which Cambria Press author Shelley Chan was interviewed! See also the Cambria Press Q&A session with Professor Chan, author of  A Subversive Voice in China: The Fictional World of Mo Yan! * * * * * * * * Recommend this book to your library! Librarians can order the book directly...

Cambria Press New Series! Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present

Cambria Press is proud to announce a new, exciting series–the Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present, which will have Professor  Ana Lucia Araujo (author of the highly praised book Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic and editor of Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images. The series will feature high-quality, innovative,...

Cambria Press author Brigitta Olubas at the First International Conference on Shirley Hazzard hosted by the New York Society Library

Cambria Press is proud to be the first academic publisher of the first book-length study on Shirley Hazzard, the acclaimed international writer. Dr. Brigitta Olubas, author of  Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist, will be at the first writers panel on Shirley Hazzard hosted by the New York Society Library. This will take place on September 7, 2012. Registration is...

Cambria Press Author, Adams Bodomo, on Voice of America segment for “African Immigrants Talk About Life in Beijing”

A recent segment on Voice of America asked Africans living in Beijing about their experiences living in China. Naturally, Professor Adams Bodomo, author of the first book-length study on Africans living in China (appropriately titled Africans in China), was consulted on his take on the situation. Please click on the following links to read the article and to listen to...

Cambria Press Author Q&A for Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist

Cambria Press is pleased to present the following Q&A session with Dr. Brigitta Olubas on her recently published book, Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist. Shirley Hazzard’s work has been extensively and extravagantly praised by writers and reviewers, such as Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Richard Ford, who raves that “if there has to be one best writer working in English...

Cambria Press New Book: Q&A for Digital Media in East Asia

Cambria Press is pleased to announce that Digital Media in East Asia: National Innovation and the Transformation of a Region by Carin Holroyd and Kenneth Coates is now available! While many observers understand that East Asian companies and countries have played a significant role in the growth of the digital sector, few understand the scale of the region’s presence in what...

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...

Outstanding Review for Cuban–Latin American Relations in the Context of a Changing Hemisphere

Cambria Press congratulates Professors Gary Prevost and Carlos Oliva Campos on the outstanding review by the International Journal of Cuban Studies of their book, Cuban–Latin American Relations in the Context of a Changing Hemisphere. The book is lauded for being “a timely publication given the enormous changes that have swept across the Latin American continent in recent years” and being...

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