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Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Melissa Lucashenko
ByCambria Press September 18, 2015September 29, 2015

Melissa Lucashenko is a Murri woman of European (Ukrainian) and Yugambeh/Bundjalung (southeast Queensland) descent, with affiliations with the Arrente and Waanyi nations (in central Australia and the southern Gulf of Carpentaria region respectively). She has published three adult novels, the prize-winning Steam Pigs, as well as Hard Yards and Mullumbimby….

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Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Jeanine Leane
ByCambria Press September 17, 2015September 29, 2015

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri woman from southwest New South Wales. She has published a book of poetry Dark Secrets (2010), which won the Scanlon Prize, and a book of stories, Purple Threads (2011), which won the David Unaipon Award. Excerpt from Cambria Press Publication Giving This Country a Memory (Chapter…

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Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Romaine Moreton
ByCambria Press September 16, 2015September 29, 2015

Romaine Moreton is a member of the Goernpul Jagara people of Stradbroke Island, which is off the south coast of Queensland, and the Bunjalung people from the coastal area of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. Her three books of poetry, The Callused Stick of Wanting, post me to…

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Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Kim Scott
ByCambria Press September 15, 2015September 29, 2015

Kim Scott is one of Australia’s best-known indigenous writers and has published three novels, True Country, Benang, and That Deadman Dance. Excerpt from Cambria Press Publication: Giving This Country a Memory (Chapter 1: Kim Scott) “Scott’s work reminds non-indigenous audiences of their proximity to indigenous peoples and their complex relationship with…

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Cambria Press Publication – Giving this Country a Memory: Contemporary Aboriginal Voices of Australia by Anne Brewster
ByCambria Press September 14, 2015September 13, 2015

Cambria Press Publication Announcement: Giving This Country a Memory Excerpt from the introduction: If contemporary literature creates a world of internal complexity, then historically the production of a private realm of contemplation and feeling has been reserved as the exclusive domain of Europeans. The concept of the expressive modern individual,…

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#Humanities Scholarship – Important and Growing
ByCambria Press January 20, 2015January 21, 2015

An excellent article from Inside Higher Ed regarding scholarship in the humanities, in which William (Bro) Adams, the head of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), said on Thursday that he wants to push humanities scholarship to become more directly connected to helping address the nation’s contemporary problems. There…

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#MLA15 Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist
ByCambria Press January 6, 2015

“Not just an intellectual exercise, or a scholarly pleasure, but also a profound relief to read,” is how this first-ever monograph on Shirley Hazzard has been described. Widely praised this book, which is in the Cambria Australian Literature Series headed by Susan Lever (University of Sydney), is also an important…

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ASAL 2014 at the University of Sydney
ByCambria Press July 10, 2014

Brigitta Olubas, author of the well-praised Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist (part of the the Cambria Australian Literature Series headed by Susan Lever) is one of the conveners for the 2014 Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) held from July 9-12 at the University of Sydney….

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Cambria Press Book Review! Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry is “a groundbreaking study”!
ByCambria Press May 7, 2014May 7, 2014

Cambria Press congratulates Toby Davidson on the glowing review of his book, Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry, which JASAL has hailed for being a “groundbreaking study which speaks to those engaged in literature, religious and cultural studies and, most directly, to those exploring the interface between poetry and the sacred … A…

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Cambria Press Book Review! The Experimental Fiction of Murray Bail is a “thorough overview” and a “sound guide”!
ByCambria Press April 8, 2014April 9, 2014

Cambria Press congratulates Michael Ackland on the outstanding review of his book, The Experimental Fiction of Murray Bail, which JASAL praised for it being a “thorough review of this major Australian artist” that fills the long-overdue need for an extended study. The review also encourages that “devotees might especially take…

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