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Cambria Press New Book! Gay Drama Now: An Anthology by John M. Clum

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 like Jose Rivera and Neal Bell to younger writers like...

Cambria Press Forthcoming Titles!

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 Press on Google+! Visit the Cambria Press website http://www.cambriapress.com

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)    ...

MLA 2013 Book Highlights: Outstanding Journal Reviews!

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 and Modern Chinese Literary History “A successful study … valuable...

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...

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