Tag: popular culture

• #MLA18 Book Launch: The Monster as War Machine

  Meet Dr. Mabel Moraña, William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and winner of the 2013 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, on Saturday (January 6) at 11:30 a.m. at the Cambria Press booth (101) for a book signing for her latest book, The Monster as War Machine. This…

  Cambria Press

  December 13, 2017

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Cambria Press, Hispanic Studies, Latin American Studies, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary Studies, Literature, MLA, New Books, New Scholarly Books

  #MLA18, Agamben, Badiou, Baudrillard, book launch, Contemporary literature, cyborgs, Deleuze, Dracula, Esposito, Euro-American theory, film, Foucault, Freud, Haraway, Hardt, Kristeva, literary criticism, Literary theory, Mabel Moraña, Marx, MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, monster, monstrosity, Negri, pishtacos, popular culture, Román de la Campa, The Monster as War Machine, war machine, Zižek

• 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

• About Coupon Code MEDIEVAL2015 from Cambria Press – International Congress on #Medieval Studies

  Yesterday, Cambria Press tweeted about the trailers for Fantasy and Science-Fiction Medievalisms: From Isaac Asimov to A Game of Thrones and The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre, two new books from Cambria Press. There have been questions about the  35% coupon code MEDIEVAL2015 from Cambria Press, which was promoted during the International Congress on Medieval Studies. We are…

  Cambria Press

  July 22, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Cambria Press

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• Cambria Press MLA Highlights for Classicism, Orientalism, and Medievalism scholars!

  The Cambria Studies in Classicism, Orientalism, and Medievalism book series by Nickolas A. Haydock (University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez) has added three new books: International Medievalism and Popular Culture  by Louise D’Arcens and Andrew Lynch (forthcoming Spring 2014) Albina and her Sisters: The Foundation of Albion by Lisa Ruch See Lisa Ruch’s book Cambria Press booth (132) in the MLA book…

  Cambria Press

  January 8, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Literature

  #MLA14, academic publisher, Albina, Albion, Andrew Lynch, Cambria Press, Classicism, Lisa Ruch, Louise D’Arcens, Medievalism, MLA, Modern Language Association, Nickolas Haydock, Orientalism, popular culture, Tolkien

• Cambria Press Must-See Video! Love or Hate Rap? Think gangster rap and hip hop are the same thing? You need to watch this!

  Cambria Press is proud to be the first academic publisher to bring out a book on this topic related to rap music. Whether you love or hate rap, the fact is that rap music and its gangster rap variant are now far too important and influential in American life to be ignored by the general…

  Cambria Press

  July 24, 2012

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Culture, Music, New Scholarly Books, Sociology

  African American, American culture, American youth, B-boying, Benjamin Bowser, black, breakdance, Cross Racial Identity Scale (CRIS), gangster rap, ghetto, hip hop, N-word, popular culture, pornography, profanity, racism, rap music, social class, teenage, violence