Tag: Latin America

• 5 Critical Books for Latin American Literature Studies

  

  Despite Latin American literature being widely known as a rich literary canon—or perhaps because it is such a rich literary canon—there are still works and aspects of Latin American literature that remain under-explored. Here are five books that bring critical works of Latin American literature to English-language audiences for the first time; break new ground…

  Cambria Press

  November 22, 2021

  Cambria Press, Hispanic Studies, Latin American Studies, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary Studies, Literature

  comparative literature, Hispanic, Latin America, world literature

• Cambria Press Publication Review: State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America

  Congratulations to Professor Gabriela Fried Amilivia on the outstanding review of her book, State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America: Transmissions Across The Generations of Post-Dictatorship Uruguay, 1984–2004, in the Journal of Latin American Studies, which praises the book for being “an invaluable contribution.” The review notes that: Gabriela Fried Amilivia’s accomplished work is…

  Cambria Press

  May 21, 2018

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Cambria Press, Hispanic Studies, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies

  Gabriela Fried Amilivia, LASA international congress, Latin America, Latin American Studies, memory studies, politics of memory, State Terrorism, Uruguay, Uruguayan military

• Black Hero Nat Turner, His Legacy, and the Memory of Slave History

  More than two centuries ago, black hero Nat Turner was born on this day.  Yet, as Elisa Bordin and Anna Scacchi note in their groundbreaking new book, Transatlantic Memories of Slavery: Reimagining the Past, Changing the Future that “Unlike other black enslaved heroes and fighters against slavery, whose monuments can be found all over the other Americas, there is…

  Cambria Press

  October 2, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, American history, ASA: African Studies Association

  Abraham Lincoln, African American, black hero, black heroes, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Django Unchained, Great Emancipator, Kenya Cagle, Latin America, Nat Turner, popular culture, public memory, Quentin Tarantino, slave history, slavery memory

• Cambria Press Publication Review: Transforming the Enemy in Spanish Culture by Lauren Beck

  Cambria Press congratulates Lauren Beck, on yet another outstanding review of her book, Transforming the Enemy in Spanish Culture: The Conquest through the Lens of Textual and Visual Multiplicity. The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies notes that “The case of Spanish culture is particularly interesting because the Spaniards have been active in the creation of stereotypes…

  Cambria Press

  September 29, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Book Review, Cambria Press, Hispanic Studies, History, Spanish culture

  #APSA2015, academic publisher, Art history, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Cambria review, cultural, Dutch, English, European, French, German, Hispania, hispanic studies, History, Italian, Latin America, Lauren Beck, multiplicity, Native American, Portuguese, religion, religious studies, Spain, Spanish, textual, Transforming the Enemy in Spanish Culture, visual

• Cambria Press New Publication: New, Highly Accessible Book on Bilateral Aid to #LatinAmerica

  Cambria Press New Publication Bilateral Aid to Latin America: Foreign Economic Assistance from Major Donor Nations Cambria Press announces the release of this comprehensive, detailed account of the bilateral economic assistance of six major donor nations—the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Japan, and China—to the nations of Latin America. This important, accessible resource will…

  Cambria Press

  August 12, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Cambria Press, Current Events

  Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Canada and Latin America, China and Latin America, donor nation, Foreign Aid, foreign investment, foreign policy, Francis Adams, International Relations, Japan and Latin America, Latin America, Latin American Studies, Old Dominion University, policy studies, political science, Sino-Latin American, Spain and Latin America, UK and Latin America, US and Latin America

• Juan Felipe Herrera, the First Mexican American U.S. Poet Laureate – The Contemporary Hispanic Poets Have Arrived!

  The Library of Congress announced yesterday that the next U.S. poet laureate is Juan Felipe Herrera. He is the first Latino poet to be appointed to the position. This significant achievement comes as no surprise to those familiar with Herrera’s work, especially Professor John Burns, Chair of the  Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Rockford University. In his new…

  Cambria Press

  June 11, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Latin American Studies, Latino Studies

  Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series, Cambria Press, Contemporary Hispanic Poets, Juan Felipe Herrera, Latin America, Latino, Poet Laureate, Román de la Campa

• #LASA2015 Highlight: Interview with John Burns, author of Contemporary Hispanic Poets

  The following is an interview with John Burns, author of Contemporary Hispanic Poets: Cultural Production in the Global, Digital Age: Question: Why did you decide to write Contemporary Hispanic Poets? John Burns: I decided to write Contemporary Hispanic Poets because the need to emphasize the relationship between text and context is important when addressing poetry.…

  Cambria Press

  May 21, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Latin American Studies, Literary Criticism

  #LASA2015, Cambria Press, digital, Hispanic, John Burns, Latin America, poetry

• #LASA2015 Highlight: Author Interview with Adrian Taylor Kane, author of Central American Avant-Garde Narrative

  The following is an interview with Adrian Taylor Kane, author of Central American Avant-Garde Narrative: Literary Innovation and Cultural Change (1926–1936): Question: Why did you decide to write Central American Avant-Garde Narrative? Adrian Taylor Kane: I perceived a gap in knowledge about fiction from this region and era. Until now, scholarship on Latin American avant-garde…

  Cambria Press

  May 21, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Latin American Studies, Literary Criticism

  #LASA2015, Adrian Kane, Ángel Asturias, Cambria Press, Central America, Central American Avant-Garde Narrative, Flavio Herrera, Latin America, Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Max Jiménez, Rogelio Sinán, surrealist, vanguardism

• #Humanities Scholarship – Important and Growing

  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 are also encouraging numbers from…

  Cambria Press

  January 20, 2015

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, Asian Studies, Australasian Studies, China, Chinese, Culture, Film Studies, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature, MLA, Music, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Theatre, Women’s Studies

  Africa, African Studies, Ana Lucia Araujo, Asia, Asian studie, Australia, Australian literature, Brazil, China, Chinese, Classicism, Contemporary literature, culture, Duke University, Film studies, gender politics, globalism, globalization, homosexuality, Howard University, human trafficking, humanities, Inside Higher Ed, John Clum, Latin America, Latin American Studies, Literary theory, Medievalism, Moses Ochonu, Nanyang Technological University, National Endowment for the Humanities, nationalism, NEH, Neil Murphy, Nickolas Haydock, Orientalism, Performing Arts, Román de la Campa, Sinophone, slavery, Susan Lever, theatre, Toyin Falola, University of Pennsylvania, University of Puerto Rico, University of Sydney, University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt University, Victor Mair

• Power, Gender, Social Class in Latin America

    At the recent 2014 LASA congress, a book which attracted much interest was Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision by Currie Thompson. The book, which was published just in time for the LASA congress, is the inaugural title of the groundbreaking Cambria Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures series headed by…

  Cambria Press

  May 29, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Culture, Film Studies, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Political Science, Sociology

  Abuso de confianza, academic publisher, Afro-Argentine, Almafuerte, Angel Magaña, Argentina, Argentine film, Argentine history, Armando Bó, Arturo García Buhr, Así es la vida, Asunto terminado, Barrio gris, Beatriz Guido, Cadetes de San Martín, Cambria Press, Carlos Borcosque, Carlos Hugo Christensen, Carlos Schlieper, Cándida, Cinco Grandes del Buen Humor, comedy of remarriage, Cosas de mujer, Currie Thompson, Daniel Tinayre, Edición extra, El amor nunca muere, El cañonero de Giles, El conventillo de la Paloma, El crimen de Oribe, El cura Lorenzo, El fin de la noche, El grito sagrado, El hijo del crack, El pendiente, El que recibe las bofetadas, El vampiro negro, Enrique Carreras, Enrique Muiño, Enrique Santos Discépolo, Ernesto Arancibia, Escuela de campeones, Eva Duarte, Eva Peron, Evita, Fanny Navarro, Fernando Birri, film noir, Filomena Marturano, Francisco Mugica, Francisco Petrone, Fuego sagrado, Fuera de la ley, generación del 60, government film censorship, Guillermo Battaglia, Hombres a precio, Homero Manzi, Huella, Hugo del Carril, José Agustín Ferreyra, Juan Carlos Thorry, Juan Domingo Perón, Juan Duarte, Juan Manuel Fangio, Julio Saraceni, La bestia debe morir, La bestia humana, La cabalgata del circo, La casa del ángel, La guerra gaucha, La niña de fuego, La orquídea, La rubia del camino, La rubia Mireya, La Tigra, Latin America, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Libertad Lamarque, Los hijos del otro, Los inundados, Los tres berretines, Lucas Demare, Luis Bayón Herrera, Luis César Amadori, Luis Moglia Barth, Luis Saslavsky, Luisito, Manuel Romero, Mario Soffici, marriage-divorce screwball, Mirtha Legrand, Niní Marshall, No abras nunca esa puerta, nouvelle vague, nuevo cine, Orestes Caviglia, Pampa bárbara, Pasaporte a Río, patria potestad, Paulina Singerman, Pelota de trapo, Peronism, Picturing Argentina, political cinema, Por buen camino, Prisioneros de la tierra, Puerta cerrada, Punto negro, Raúl Alejandro Apold, Roland Barthes, Román de la Campa, Sacachispas, screwball comedy, Se abre el abismo, Si muero antes de despertar, Su mejor alumno, Suburbio, Tire dié, Tita Merello, transvestite film, Vidalita, Viento norte, Yo conocí a esa mujer, Zully Moreno