Tag: Román de la Campa

• Cambria Press Publication Review: Central American Avant-Garde Narrative

  Congratulations to Professor Adrian Kane on the excellent review of his book, Central American Avant-Garde Narrative: Literary Innovation and Cultural Change (1926–1936), in the journal Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana. The review notes that: While other studies have centered on poetry and manifestos, in Central American Avant-Garde Narrative Kane turns to the genre of narrative fiction to…

  Cambria Press

  May 15, 2018

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  Adrian Kane, Avant Garde, Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series, Cambria Press, Central American Avant-Garde Narrative, Central American literature, Chasqui, Flavio Herrera, literary experimentation, Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Max Jiménez, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Rogelio Sinán, Román de la Campa

• #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

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• The Monster as War Machine – Book Excerpts

  Cambria Press is proud to announce the publication of the new book, The Monster as War Machine, by by 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. See below for excerpts from this book, which has been…

  Cambria Press

  December 12, 2017

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• #MLA17 Events – Meet Cambria Press Series Editors and Authors

  Cambria Press would like to invite #MLA17 attendees to join us for the following events: Meet Professor Román de la Campa (University of Pennsylvania) General Editor of the Cambria Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series Friday (January 6) at 5 p.m. Cambria Press Booth 509, MLA Book Exhibit Hall * * * *…

  Cambria Press

  December 28, 2016

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• Cambria Press Publication Review: Contemporary Hispanic Poets

  Congratulations to Professor John Burns on the outstanding review by the journal, A contra corriente, of his book Contemporary Hispanic Poets: Cultural Production in the Global, Digital Age! This book is in the Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures series, headed by Professor Román de la Campa, the Edwin B. and Lenore R. Williams Professor of Romance…

  Cambria Press

  May 11, 2016

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• 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

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• #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…

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  January 20, 2015

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• Central American Avant-Garde Narrative – RMMLA 2014 Book Highlight

  Central American Avant-Garde Narrative by Adrian Kane has been just been published and will be on display in the 2014 RMMLA book exhibit this week.  Dr. Kane (professor of Spanish at Boise State University) will be chairing two RMMLA sessions this Friday. This book is part of the Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series…

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  October 7, 2014

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• Cambria Press New Book: Central American Avant-Garde Narrative

  Central American Avant-Garde Narrative by Adrian Kane analyzes the relation between cultural changes and experimental fiction written during the 1920s and 30s. This era, known in Latin America as the historical avant-garde, was characterized by a wave of literary and artistic innovation. By framing several Central American novels and short stories from this period within…

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  September 22, 2014

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• 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…

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  May 29, 2014

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