Tag: racism

• Cambria Press Publication Review: Juliet of the Tropics: A Bilingual Edition of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera’s La Cuarterona (1867)

  Congratulations to Professor John Maddox on the great review of his book, Juliet of the Tropics: A Bilingual Edition of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera’s “La Cuarterona” (1867) , by the journal Hispania. The book review states: “Thanks to John Maddox’s translation and critical introduction, the play, now in both Spanish and English, has the potential…

  Cambria Press

  May 23, 2018

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Cambria Press, Latin American Studies, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary Studies

  abolitionism, Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, Hispania, John Maddox, La Cuarterona, miscegenation, Puerto Rican author, Puerto Rico, racism, slavery

• Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Interview Snippet with Doris Pilkington Garimara

    Interview Snippet from Cambria Press Publication Giving This Country a Memory (Chapter 7: Doris Pilkington Garimara ) Anne: Have you had feedback from overseas readers? Doris: Oh, look, they were fabulous, in all those places, about the film; particularly the Native American people. We had stories to exchange, and so on. Although Native American people…

  Cambria Press

  September 22, 2015

  Australasian Studies, Cambria Press, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books

  #AustLit, academic publisher, Alf Taylor, Anne Brewster, Arrente, assimilation, Australia Council Red Ochre Award, Australian literature, Australian Sorry Day’s Committee’s Journey of Healing, Benang, black pride, Bundjalung, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria review, Caprice, Church, cross-racial, Dark Secrets, David Unaipon Award, Doris Pilkington Garimara, femininity, Goernpul Jagara, Hard Yards, Humour, indigenous, intersubjectivity, Jeanine Leane, Kim Scott, Marie Munkara, Martu, masculinity, Melissa Lucashenko, MLA, Modern Language Association, Mullumbimby, Murri, Native American, New Norcia, New South Wales, Ngadu, Noongar, Nyoongar, oppressor, OzLit, Poems from a Homeland, poetry, post me to the prime minister, Purple Threads, Queensland, Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, Rabbit Proof Fence, racism, racist, Romaine Moreton, satire, Scanlon Prize, sexual purity, Steam Pigs, Stolen Generations, Susan Lever, That Deadman Dance, The Callused Stick of Wanting, True Country, Under the Wintamarra Tree, underclass, violence, Waanyi, white, Wiradjuri, worldview, Yugambeh

• Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Doris Pilkington Garimara

  

  Doris Pilkington Garimara (1937–2014) was from the Martu people of the Western Desert. She published a trilogy, Caprice, A Stockman’s Daughter, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, and Under the Wintamarra Tree). Caprice won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and the David Unaipon Award. Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence was adapted as a film in 2002, The Rabbit…

  Cambria Press

  September 21, 2015

  Australasian Studies, Cambria Press, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books

  #AustLit, academic publisher, Alf Taylor, Anne Brewster, Arrente, assimilation, Australia Council Red Ochre Award, Australian literature, Australian Sorry Day’s Committee’s Journey of Healing, Benang, black pride, Bundjalung, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria review, Caprice, Church, cross-racial, Dark Secrets, David Unaipon Award, Doris Pilkington Garimara, femininity, Goernpul Jagara, Hard Yards, Humour, indigenous, intersubjectivity, Jeanine Leane, Kim Scott, Marie Munkara, Martu, masculinity, Melissa Lucashenko, MLA, Modern Language Association, Mullumbimby, Murri, Native American, New Norcia, New South Wales, Ngadu, Noongar, Nyoongar, oppressor, OzLit, Poems from a Homeland, poetry, post me to the prime minister, Purple Threads, Queensland, Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, Rabbit Proof Fence, racism, racist, Romaine Moreton, satire, Scanlon Prize, sexual purity, Steam Pigs, Stolen Generations, Susan Lever, That Deadman Dance, The Callused Stick of Wanting, True Country, Under the Wintamarra Tree, underclass, violence, Waanyi, white, Wiradjuri, worldview, Yugambeh

• Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Alf Taylor

  

  Alf Taylor is a Yuat Nyoongar (who is also of Ngadu heritage). He is a prolific and versatile writer who has won several awards. Taylor has published two books of poetry, Singer Songwriter and Winds, and a collection of short fiction, Long Time Now (which has been translated into Spanish). A member of the Stolen…

  Cambria Press

  September 20, 2015

  Australasian Studies, Cambria Press, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books

  #AustLit, academic publisher, Alf Taylor, Anne Brewster, Arrente, assimilation, Australia Council Red Ochre Award, Australian literature, Australian Sorry Day’s Committee’s Journey of Healing, Benang, black pride, Bundjalung, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria review, Caprice, Church, cross-racial, Dark Secrets, David Unaipon Award, Doris Pilkington Garimara, femininity, Goernpul Jagara, Hard Yards, Humour, indigenous, intersubjectivity, Jeanine Leane, Kim Scott, Marie Munkara, Martu, masculinity, Melissa Lucashenko, MLA, Modern Language Association, Mullumbimby, Murri, Native American, New Norcia, New South Wales, Ngadu, Noongar, Nyoongar, oppressor, OzLit, Poems from a Homeland, poetry, post me to the prime minister, Purple Threads, Queensland, Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, Rabbit Proof Fence, racism, racist, Romaine Moreton, satire, Scanlon Prize, sexual purity, Steam Pigs, Stolen Generations, Susan Lever, That Deadman Dance, The Callused Stick of Wanting, True Country, Under the Wintamarra Tree, underclass, violence, Waanyi, white, Wiradjuri, worldview, Yugambeh

• Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Marie Munkara

  

  Of Rembarranga, Tiwi, Macassan, and Chinese descent, Marie Munkara’s first book, Every Secret Thing, won the David Unaipon Award and the Northern Territory Book of the Year Award. She has also published another collection, A Most Peculiar Act, in addition to two children’s books, Rusty Brown and Rusty and Jojo. Excerpt from Cambria Press Publication Giving…

  Cambria Press

  September 19, 2015

  Australasian Studies, Cambria Press, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books

  #AustLit, academic publisher, Alf Taylor, Anne Brewster, Arrente, assimilation, Australia Council Red Ochre Award, Australian literature, Australian Sorry Day’s Committee’s Journey of Healing, Benang, black pride, Bundjalung, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria review, Caprice, Church, cross-racial, Dark Secrets, David Unaipon Award, Doris Pilkington Garimara, femininity, Goernpul Jagara, Hard Yards, Humour, indigenous, intersubjectivity, Jeanine Leane, Kim Scott, Marie Munkara, Martu, masculinity, Melissa Lucashenko, MLA, Modern Language Association, Mullumbimby, Murri, Native American, New Norcia, New South Wales, Ngadu, Noongar, Nyoongar, oppressor, OzLit, Poems from a Homeland, poetry, post me to the prime minister, Purple Threads, Queensland, Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, Rabbit Proof Fence, racism, racist, Romaine Moreton, satire, Scanlon Prize, sexual purity, Steam Pigs, Stolen Generations, Susan Lever, That Deadman Dance, The Callused Stick of Wanting, True Country, Under the Wintamarra Tree, underclass, violence, Waanyi, white, Wiradjuri, worldview, Yugambeh

• Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Melissa Lucashenko

  

  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. Lucashenko has also published two…

  Cambria Press

  September 18, 2015

  Australasian Studies, Cambria Press, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books

  #AustLit, academic publisher, Alf Taylor, Anne Brewster, Arrente, assimilation, Australia Council Red Ochre Award, Australian literature, Australian Sorry Day’s Committee’s Journey of Healing, Benang, black pride, Bundjalung, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria review, Caprice, Church, cross-racial, Dark Secrets, David Unaipon Award, Doris Pilkington Garimara, femininity, Goernpul Jagara, Hard Yards, Humour, indigenous, intersubjectivity, Jeanine Leane, Kim Scott, Marie Munkara, Martu, masculinity, Melissa Lucashenko, MLA, Modern Language Association, Mullumbimby, Murri, Native American, New Norcia, New South Wales, Ngadu, Noongar, Nyoongar, oppressor, OzLit, Poems from a Homeland, poetry, post me to the prime minister, Purple Threads, Queensland, Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, Rabbit Proof Fence, racism, racist, Romaine Moreton, satire, Scanlon Prize, sexual purity, Steam Pigs, Stolen Generations, Susan Lever, That Deadman Dance, The Callused Stick of Wanting, True Country, Under the Wintamarra Tree, underclass, violence, Waanyi, white, Wiradjuri, worldview, Yugambeh

• Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Jeanine Leane

  

  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 3: Jeanine Leane) “The white…

  Cambria Press

  September 17, 2015

  Australasian Studies, Cambria Press, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books

  #AustLit, academic publisher, Alf Taylor, Anne Brewster, Arrente, assimilation, Australia Council Red Ochre Award, Australian literature, Australian Sorry Day’s Committee’s Journey of Healing, Benang, black pride, Bundjalung, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria review, Caprice, Church, cross-racial, Dark Secrets, David Unaipon Award, Doris Pilkington Garimara, femininity, Goernpul Jagara, Hard Yards, Humour, indigenous, intersubjectivity, Jeanine Leane, Kim Scott, Marie Munkara, Martu, masculinity, Melissa Lucashenko, MLA, Modern Language Association, Mullumbimby, Murri, Native American, New Norcia, New South Wales, Ngadu, Noongar, Nyoongar, oppressor, OzLit, Poems from a Homeland, poetry, post me to the prime minister, Purple Threads, Queensland, Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, Rabbit Proof Fence, racism, racist, Romaine Moreton, satire, Scanlon Prize, sexual purity, Steam Pigs, Susan Lever, That Deadman Dance, The Callused Stick of Wanting, True Country, Under the Wintamarra Tree, underclass, violence, Waanyi, white, Wiradjuri, worldview, Yugambeh

• Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Romaine Moreton

  

  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 the prime minister, and Poems…

  Cambria Press

  September 16, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Australasian Studies, Cambria Press, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books

  #AustLit, academic publisher, Alf Taylor, Anne Brewster, Arrente, assimilation, Australia Council Red Ochre Award, Australian literature, Australian Sorry Day’s Committee’s Journey of Healing, Benang, black pride, Bundjalung, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria review, Caprice, Church, cross-racial, Dark Secrets, David Unaipon Award, Doris Pilkington Garimara, femininity, Goernpul Jagara, Hard Yards, Humour, indigenous, intersubjectivity, Jeanine Leane, Kim Scott, Marie Munkara, Martu, masculinity, Melissa Lucashenko, MLA, Modern Language Association, Mullumbimby, Murri, Native American, New Norcia, New South Wales, Ngadu, Noongar, Nyoongar, oppressor, OzLit, Poems from a Homeland, poetry, post me to the prime minister, Purple Threads, Queensland, Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, Rabbit Proof Fence, racism, racist, Romaine Moreton, satire, Scanlon Prize, sexual purity, Steam Pigs, Stolen Generations, Susan Lever, That Deadman Dance, The Callused Stick of Wanting, True Country, Under the Wintamarra Tree, underclass, violence, Waanyi, white, Wiradjuri, worldview, Yugambeh

• Cambria Press Publication: Giving this Country a Memory – Featured Author: Kim Scott

  

  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 Aboriginal sovereignty. Indeed, in his…

  Cambria Press

  September 15, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Australasian Studies, Cambria Press, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books

  #AustLit, academic publisher, Alf Taylor, Anne Brewster, Arrente, assimilation, Australia Council Red Ochre Award, Australian literature, Australian Sorry Day’s Committee’s Journey of Healing, Benang, black pride, Bundjalung, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria review, Caprice, Church, cross-racial, Dark Secrets, David Unaipon Award, Doris Pilkington Garimara, femininity, Goernpul Jagara, Hard Yards, Humour, indigenous, intersubjectivity, Jeanine Leane, Kim Scott, Marie Munkara, Martu, masculinity, Melissa Lucashenko, MLA, Modern Language Association, Mullumbimby, Murri, Native American, New Norcia, New South Wales, Ngadu, Noongar, Nyoongar, oppressor, OzLit, Poems from a Homeland, poetry, post me to the prime minister, Purple Threads, Queensland, Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, Rabbit Proof Fence, racism, racist, Romaine Moreton, satire, Scanlon Prize, sexual purity, Steam Pigs, Stolen Generations, Susan Lever, That Deadman Dance, The Callused Stick of Wanting, True Country, Under the Wintamarra Tree, underclass, violence, Waanyi, white, Wiradjuri, worldview, Yugambeh

• Cambria Press Publication – Giving this Country a Memory: Contemporary Aboriginal Voices of Australia by Anne Brewster

  

  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, central to Western literature, can…

  Cambria Press

  September 14, 2015

  Cambria Press

  #AustLit, academic publisher, Alf Taylor, Anne Brewster, Arrente, assimilation, Australia Council Red Ochre Award, Australian literature, Australian Sorry Day’s Committee’s Journey of Healing, Benang, black pride, Bundjalung, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria review, Caprice, Church, cross-racial, Dark Secrets, David Unaipon Award, Doris Pilkington Garimara, femininity, Goernpul Jagara, Hard Yards, Humour, indigenous, intersubjectivity, Jeanine Leane, Kim Scott, Marie Munkara, Martu, masculinity, Melissa Lucashenko, MLA, Modern Language Association, Mullumbimby, Murri, Native American, New Norcia, New South Wales, Ngadu, Noongar, Nyoongar, oppressor, OzLit, Poems from a Homeland, poetry, post me to the prime minister, Purple Threads, Queensland, Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, Rabbit Proof Fence, racism, racist, Romaine Moreton, satire, Scanlon Prize, sexual purity, Steam Pigs, Stolen Generations, Susan Lever, That Deadman Dance, The Callused Stick of Wanting, True Country, Under the Wintamarra Tree, underclass, violence, Waanyi, white, Wiradjuri, worldview, Yugambeh