Tag: Cambria Press

  • The Femme Fatale in American Literature Cambria Press 2008-09-28 192 pages 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm ISBN: 9781604975352 Ghada Suleiman Sasa, Assistant Professor of English Literature Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan Characters in the literary tradition of American naturalism are usually perceived as passive, lacking in will, weak, and predetermined. They are…

  • This book explores the history of African tangible and intangible heritages and its links with the public memory of slavery in Brazil and Angola. The two countries are deeply connected, given how most enslaved Africans, forcibly brought to Brazil during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, were from West Central Africa.

  • The Creole Elite and the Rise of Angolan Proto-Nationalism, 1870–1920 Cambria Press 2008-09-08 340 pages ISBN: 9781604975291 Jacopo Corrado This book is about Angolan literature and culture. It investigates a segment of Angolan history and literature, with which even Portuguese-speaking readers are generally not familiar. Its main purpose is to define the features and the…

  • The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context Cambria Press 2010-08-08 360 pages ISBN: 9781604977042 Antonio Olliz-Boyd, Emeritus Professor of Latin American Literature Temple University Just beneath the surface of most scholars’ research on the ethno-racial composition of Spanish-speaking America lies a definitive connection between the African Diaspora and the Latin American…