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Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian Book Signing at 2013 MLA Annual Convention – Cambria Press booth (#316) on Friday (Jan 4) 1:15–1:45 p.m.

Nobel Laureate GAO Xingjian will be at the Cambria Press booth (#316) on Friday (Jan 4) at 1:15–1:45 p.m. to sign copies of his most recent book, Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation. Gao’s book has been published just in time for the 2013 MLA Annual Convention! The book takes the title Aesthetics and Creation from the name of the Chinese collection...

Launch of Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian’s book, the Rise of Sinophone Studies, and Rethinking Chineseness!

Cambria Press authors, Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gao Xingjian and translator Dr. Mabel Lee, will be attending the 2013 MLA conference in Boston for the launch of the new book, Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation. The book has been published just in time for the MLA annaul convention. MLA convention attendees will be the first to see the book!...

Cambria Press Contemporary Global Performing Arts Series New Book! The Films of Ousmane Sembène – Published Just in Time for the 2012 African Studies Annual Meeting!

Ousmane Sembène was a Senegalese film director, producer, and writer whom the Los Angeles Times considered one of the greatest authors of Africa. Often called the “father of African film,” Sembène strongly believed that African films should be geared primarily toward educating the masses and making the philosophical quandaries and political issues contested by elites accessible to the poor and...

The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Culture, and Politics by Amadou Fofana – Discussion Questions

The following are discussion questions that the author, Professor Amadou Fofana, helpfully compiled for those who would like to use his book,  The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Politics, and Culture, for course adoption. (There are no discussion questions for chapter 1, which is an introductory chapter.) Chapter 2: Contextualizing Ousmane Sembène 1) How did the specific time period of Sembène’s...

Happy Labor Day to Archivists, Political Scientists, and Workers Around the World!

Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country. On this Labor Day preceding the landmark 2012 presidential elections, at a time...

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...

Cambria Press Must-See Video! Love or Hate Rap? Think gangster rap and hip hop are the same thing? You need to watch this!

Cambria Press is proud to be the first academic publisher to bring out a book on this topic related to rap music. Whether you love or hate rap, the fact is that rap music and its gangster rap variant are now far too important and influential in American life to be ignored by the general public and research communities alike....

NEW PUBLICATION: Gangster Rap and Its Social Cost is now available! Read the rave reviews by scholars for this book!

Cambria Press is pleased to announce that Gangster Rap and Its Social Cost: Exploiting Hip Hop and Using Racial Stereotypes to Entertain America by Professor Benjamin P. Bowser is now available. Rap music and its gangster rap variant are now far too important and influential in American life to be ignored by the general public and research communities alike. Artists...

Read the author interview with Professor Barbara M. Miller on her recently published book, Marketplace Advocacy Campaigns: Generating Public Support for Business and Industry

Cambria Press is pleased to announce that Marketplace Advocacy Campaigns: Generating Public Support for Business and Industry by Barbara M. Miller is now available. Below is a transcript of the Q&A session with Professor Miller.  ************************  1. Why did you decide to write this book? Originally from West Virginia, I have long been familiar with the Friends of Coal campaign...

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