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#NWSA2014 Highlights: Groundbreaking Books for Women’s Studies
ByCambria Press November 13, 2014November 14, 2014

#NWSA2014 attendees, are these groundbreaking books in women’s studies in your library? Make sure they are and take advantage of the 30% discount on all titles (now until November 30, 2014). Use web coupon code BA188. Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity: The Birth of the Monster in Literature, Film, and Media…

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Central American Avant-Garde Narrative – RMMLA 2014 Book Highlight
ByCambria Press October 7, 2014October 7, 2014

Central American Avant-Garde Narrative by Adrian Kane has been just been published and will be on display in the 2014 RMMLA book exhibit this week. Dr. Kane (professor of Spanish at Boise State University) will be chairing two RMMLA sessions this Friday. This book is part of the Cambria Latin…

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Cambria Press New Book: Central American Avant-Garde Narrative
ByCambria Press September 22, 2014September 22, 2014

Central American Avant-Garde Narrative by Adrian Kane analyzes the relation between cultural changes and experimental fiction written during the 1920s and 30s. This era, known in Latin America as the historical avant-garde, was characterized by a wave of literary and artistic innovation. By framing several Central American novels and short…

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BRASA 2014 – Catch Ana Lucia Araujo’s Session this Saturday at King’s College!
ByCambria Press August 21, 2014

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…

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Cambria Press New Book for African studies, Latin American studies, slavery studies, and women’s studies
ByCambria Press June 24, 2014June 24, 2014

At the 2014 LASA congress last month, there was much excitement not only for Howard University history professor Ana Lucia Araujo’s two highly praised books, Public Memory of Slavery and Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade, but also her series, Slavery: Past and Present, because the inaugural title Black Women as Custodians of…

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Cambria Press Book Highlight: Performance, Theatre, and Society in Contemporary Nicaragua
ByCambria Press June 24, 2014

An excerpt from Performance, Theatre, and Society in Contemporary Nicaragua: Spectacles of Gender, Sexuality, and Marginality: [An] example of a public performance of marginality that critically responds to the Nicaraguan regime’s theatricality of power is the performance of Shayra, a twenty-four-year-old gay transvestite man, in the fringe circus called King Cat in a modest…

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Brazil’s African Soul (BBC) – The impact of the slave trade continues
ByCambria Press June 10, 2014

A recent BBC report “Brazil’s African Soul” on June 4 states that “African culture brought over during the slave trade still influences modern Salvador in myriad ways, from unique art forms to ongoing social struggles.” This is not surprising at all; as Ana Lucia Araujo pointed out in her book Public…

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Power, Gender, Social Class in Latin America
ByCambria Press May 29, 2014May 29, 2014

At the recent 2014 LASA congress, a book which attracted much interest was Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision by Currie Thompson. The book, which was published just in time for the LASA congress, is the inaugural title of the groundbreaking Cambria Studies in Latin American Literatures…

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Latin American Studies catalog now up for LASA 2014
ByCambria Press May 13, 2014

The Latin American studies catalog is now up for LASA 2014! Download it now &/or pick one up at the Cambria Press booth (#209) in the LASA book exhibit hall next week in Chicago! Be sure to check out the new books in the series headed by: Román de la…

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LASA 2014: Democracy and Memory
ByCambria Press May 8, 2014May 8, 2014

The theme for this year’s LASA congress–democracy and memory–is a highly important one which presses scholars to consider critical questions regarding the impact of collective memory and institutional development. From the LASA website, these questions are: Does this past, shaped by collective memories that are themselves constructed of narratives, shared…

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