Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Chapter 1: “New England Merchants and the Circum-Caribbean Slave Trade” (Excerpts)

Ten years ago we published a highly acclaimed volume, Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images, edited by leading slavery studies scholar Professor Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University). The book continues to be an important resource, and in celebration of its ten-year anniversary, we will be highlighting excerpts from each chapter of the book. This is Chapter...

Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Introduction

Ten years ago we published a highly acclaimed volume, Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images, edited by leading slavery studies scholar Professor Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University). The book continues to be an important resource, and in celebration of its ten-year anniversary, we will be highlighting excerpts from each chapter of the book, beginning with the...

#WorldPoetryDay2021 Highlight: Writing Poetry, Surviving War

On #WorldPoetryDay2021, we are delighted to feature this photo of Association for Asian Studies, Inc. (AAS) member Professor Yugen Wang (University of Oregon) with his #newbook Writing Poetry, Surviving War: The Works of Refugee Scholar-Official Chen Yuyi (1090–1139), which is being showcased at our #AAS2021 virtual booth. This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series headed by Victor H. Mair (University...

Cambria Literature in Taiwan Series & other noteworthy titles

#AAS2021 Watch this short video about the Cambria Literature in Taiwan Series (general editor: Dr. Nikky Lin, National Taiwan Normal University) & other noteworthy titles. There are 3 new books out this spring: A Son of Taiwan: Stories of Government Atrocity edited by Drs. Howard Goldblatt & Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Transitions in Taiwan: Stories of the White Terror edited by Ian...

#AAS2021 Program Highlight: New Book by Professor Yü Ying-shih

We are delighted to be a sponsor of #AAS2021. Here’s a snippet from our Association for Asian Studies, Inc. (AAS) program ad. Visit our virtual booth to learn more about the new book From Rural China to the Ivy League by Professor Yü Ying-shih (Princeton University), winner of the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity in 2006 and...

#StPatricksDay Highlight: Reading John Banville Through Jean Baudrillard

“Hedda Friberg-Harnesk sheds new light on the fiction of John Banville thanks to an original theoretical frame: her perceptive use of Baudrillard’s orders of simulacra engages the reader in a stimulating critical conversation with the unstable and uncertain worlds and beings of Banvillean fiction. … [Her] eloquent, thought-provoking study grants the reader a deeper insight into Banville’s bewitching “territory of...

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