Tag: Asian diaspora

• Asian-Pacific Heritage Month Highlight – Alienglish: Eastern Diasporas in Anglo-American Tongues

  Published this year, Alienglish: Eastern Diasporas in Anglo-American Tongues by Sheng-mei Ma is the perfect book for the celebration of Asian-Pacific Heritage Month. From the book’s introduction:  “Haltingly, aliens come to speak in the Anglo-American tongue that you and I (me and you?) would understand, but what emerges is somehow skewed by accents, syntax, body language, and…

  Cambria Press

  May 30, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Culture, Film Studies, International Studies, Literature

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• Cambria Press Book Review: Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora is “ambitious, and it certainly succeeds”!

  Cambria Press congratulates Karen An-hwei Lee on the superb review of her new book Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora: Literary Transnationalism and Translingual Migrations by the International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies (IJCLTS)! The journal review praises the book because of “the use of concepts such as translation and migration in a…

  Cambria Press

  January 16, 2014

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, International Studies, Literature, MLA

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• Cambria Press #MLA14 Sinophone Highlights

  Cambria Press authors Karen An-Hwei Lee (Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora, just published Fall 2013) and E. K. Tan (Rethinking Chineseness, launched at 2013 MLA) will be presiding over the following sessions respectively: 101. Parodic Form in Asian Diasporic Poetry and Culture 246. Sinophone Studies in Translation: Thinking Comparatively and Relationally Both books are…

  Cambria Press

  January 8, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Literature, MLA

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• Cambria Press Forthcoming Title: Alienglish by Sheng-mei Ma

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  Cambria Press

  October 3, 2013

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books

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• Cambria Press Forthcoming Book! Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora

  The Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Professor Victor Mair, will soon be releasing Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora: Literary Transnationalism and Translingual Migrations by Karen An-hwei Lee. The book is praised by Professor Josephine Park (University of Pennsylvania) for being an “illuminating study” as well as Professor Ouyang Yu, the famous contemporary Chinese-Australian…

  Cambria Press

  August 6, 2013

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Literature

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