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Cambria Press Promotion! Special price for Gay Drama Now — Ends June 21, so buy your copy today!
ByCambria Press June 6, 2013June 6, 2013

Cambria Press is offering Gay Drama Now edited by Professor John M. Clum (Duke University) for a very special introductory price of $60 (regular list price is $149.99)! This incredible anthology, which is 616 pages long, offers a sampling of the best of contemporary drama about the gay experience in America…

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Cambria Press New Book! Gay Drama Now: An Anthology by John M. Clum
ByCambria Press May 7, 2013May 7, 2013

Cambria Press is very proud to announce that Gay Drama Now: An Anthology by Professor John M. Clum (Duke University), general editor of the Cambria Studies in Contemporary Global Performing Arts series, is now available! This collection written by some of the most celebrated playwrights working today, from veteran playwrights…

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Cambria Press Forthcoming Titles!
ByCambria Press April 25, 2013April 25, 2013

Perspectives on Contemporary Dance History: Revisiting Impulse, 1950–1970 Egypt: Ancient Histories, Modern Archaeologies Literature by the Working Class: English Autobiographies, 1820–1848 The Male Empire Under the Female Gaze: The British Raj and the Memsahib LIKE Cambria Press on Facebook, Follow Cambria Press on Twitter, and share this news from Cambria…

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Happy New Year! Usher in 2013 with a Nobel Prize Winner!
ByCambria Press January 1, 2013January 1, 2013

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…

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MLA 2013 Book Highlights: Outstanding Journal Reviews!
ByCambria Press December 29, 2012January 11, 2013

Visit the Cambria Press booth (#316) to browse new titles as well as other Cambria Press titles that have received rave journal reviews, including: Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia Winner of Sarasvati Award for the Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology! The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction…

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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!
ByCambria Press November 24, 2012January 11, 2013

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…

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The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Culture, and Politics by Amadou Fofana – Discussion Questions
ByCambria Press November 24, 2012January 11, 2013

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…

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