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Catching Fire: A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.54An energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.In Catching Fire , the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfolds in real time as a conversation between works of art,... -
Myth, Literature and the African World by Wole Soyinka 9780521398343
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.49Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa. The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a cultural... -
Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant by Nick Nesbitt 9781786940384
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £28.48Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from... -
Th Essential Neruda: Selected Poems Pablo Neruda 9781852248628
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.79Pablo Neruda (1904-73) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. A prolific, inspirational poet, he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes, notably love, death, grief and despair. His poetry celebrates the... -
Grace Nichols by Sarah Lawson Welsh 9780746309551
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £13.48This first full-length study of Grace Nichols's work argues that, rather than exploring the tension between its 'Caribbeaness' and 'Britishness', it is more productively read in terms of a series of border crossings. Nichols's major female protagonists... -
Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics by Charles Martindale
Booksplease Price: £40.99This book argues for a new attention to the importance of beauty and the aesthetic in our response to poetry. Charles Martindale explores ways in which Kant's aesthetic theory, as set out in the Critique of Judgement, remains of fundamental importance... -
Crick Crack Monkey (Caribbean Writers Series) by Merle Hodge 9780435989514
Booksplease Price: £12.00A revealing novel of childhood about Tee who is being made socially acceptable by her Aunt Beatrice so that she can cope with the caste system of Trinidad.Book InformationISBN 9780435989514Author Merle HodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Pearson... -
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome Las Casas
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.36Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he... -
Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.48In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa all became part of the general culture of... -
Poetics of Relation by Betsy Wing 9780472066292
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £17.26Edouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate... -
Aura: By Carlos Fuentes by Peter Standish 9780719081835
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.73Since its publication in 1962, Carlos Fuentes' novel, Aura, remains not merely an object of academic interest but a continuous source of controversy in Mexico. It was the explosive combination of sex and religion that incensed the Ministro de Hacienda,... -
Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Rolena Adorno
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.83A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how... -
The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean by Nick Nesbitt 9780813947099
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813947099Author Nick NesbittFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
RRP: £18.49Booksplease Price: £13.92This crisp new translation by John Gledson is the only complete, unabridged, and annotated edition available of one of the most distinctive novels of the turn of the century.About the AuthorAbout the Translator and Editor: John Gledson is Professor... -
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books'It is... -
Canto General by Pablo Neruda 9788437609300
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £18.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437609300Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 655Imprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra S.A.Weight(grams) 467g -
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel by W.L. Bloch 9780195334579
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.80The Library of Babel is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story-memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating... -
Caribbean Irish Connections: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Evelyn O'Callaghan 9789766405045
Booksplease Price: £41.55There has been an Irish presence within the Caribbean since at least the 1620s and yet the historical and cultural dimensions of this encounter remain relatively under-researched and are often conceived of in reductive terms by crude markers such as red... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys by Anthony Fowles 9781906075347
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075347Author Anthony FowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures by Bill Ashcroft 9780415280204
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.36The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as... -
Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean by Dr Justine McConnell 9781474291521
Booksplease Price: £75.21Throughout his career, Derek Walcott turned to the literature and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. His book-length poem recasting the epics of Homer, Virgil and Dante in St Lucia is best-known in this regard, yet Omeros is only the pinnacle of a... -
Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community by Lois Parkinson Zamora 9780822316404
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.50Magical realism is often regarded as a regional trend, restricted to the Latin American writers who popularized it as a literary form. In this critical anthology, the first of its kind, editors Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris show magical... -
Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction by Antonio Córdoba 9783031117909
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £111.24This volume explores how Latin American and Latinx creators have engaged science fiction to explore posthumanist thought. Contributors reflect on how Latin American and Latinx speculative art conceptualizes the operations of other, non-human forms of... -
We Mark Your Memory: writings from the descendants of indenture by David Dabydeen 9781912250073
Booksplease Price: £16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912250073Author David DabydeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London -
Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance by Belinda Edmondson 9780198914648
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.59Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. By emphasizing multiracial origins, transnational influences, and musical... -
A Sor Juana Anthology by Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz 9780674821217
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £24.73Here is a new voice-new to us-reaching across a gap of three hundred years. Sor (Sister) Juana Ines de la Cruz was acclaimed in her time as "Phoenix of Mexico, America's Tenth Muse"; a generation later she was forgotten. In our century she was... -
The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834: Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity by Emily Senior
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.54During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations... -
The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges by Edwin Williamson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.23Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction... -
West Indian Intellectuals in Britain by Bill Schwarz 9780719064753
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.68The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain. Written in an accessible, lively style, with a range of wonderful and distinguished authors. Key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain; study... -
Summer Lightning & Other Stories by Olive Senior 9780582786271
Booksplease Price: £14.48Written in vivid, colourful detail, these rich, compelling stories recreate with sensitivity and wit a whole range of emotions, from childhood hope to brooding melancholy.About the AuthorBorn in 1941, Olive Senior spent her early years in Trelawny and... -
Granta 121: Best of Young Brazilian Novelists by John Freeman 9781905881635
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881635Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 365gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 144mm... -
Iracema by Jose De Alencar 9780195115482
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.61Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature-perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar's many works. Set in the sixteenth century, it is an... -
Ways of Sunlight by Sam Selvon 9780582642614
Booksplease Price: £14.48The master-storyteller turns his pen to rural village life with Ways of Sunlight in Trinidad: gossip and rivalry between village washerwomen; toiling cane-cutters reaping their harvest; superstitious old Ma Procop protecting the fruit of her Mango tree... -
Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks': New Interdisciplinary Essays by Max Silverman
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.59First published in 1952, Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks is one of the most important anti-colonial works of the post-war period. It is both a profound critique of the conscious and unconcious ways in which colonialism brutalises the colonised and... -
A Literary Friendship: Selected Notes on the Kamau Brathwaite, Gordon Rohlehr Correspondence by Gordon Rohlehr 9781845235840
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.20For fifty years, Gordon Rohlehr was the regular correspondent, sometimes confidant and always the critic who best understood the nature of Kamau Brathwaite's vision and what his poetry achieved. In revisiting the trajectory of their mutually enriching... -
The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
RRP: £19.49Booksplease Price: £14.25When Latin American writers burst on to the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself overnight out of thin air. Not only was the writing extraordinary but its sudden and... -
After Man: Towards The Human: Critical Essays on Sylvia Wynter by Anthony Bogues 9789766372248
Booksplease Price: £16.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789766372248Author Anthony BoguesFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Ian Randle Publishers,JamaicaPublisher Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica -
Poetic Intention by Edouard Glissant 9780982264539
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.62This marks the publication of the first English-language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissant's classic meditation on poetry and art. In this wide-ranging book, Glissant discusses poets, including Stephane Mallarme and Saint-John Perse, and visual... -
Contemporary Peruvian Narrative and Popular Cult - Jaime Bayly, Ivan Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides by Robert Ruz
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.36The first book-length study of modern Peruvian narrative and its resurgence in the 1990s, focussing on Jaime Bayly, Ivan Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides. This book provides the first look at the dynamic resurgence of Peruvian narrative since the... -
Stronger than Death: Hart Crane's Last Year in Mexico Francesca Bratton 9781529383379
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.98'Poignant and fiercely intelligent, this is the best work of creative non-fiction I have read in years' FIONA MOZLEY'Profound, moving and courageous' NICHOLAS ALLEN, IRISH TIMESIn April 1931, modernist poet Hart Crane arrived in Mexico City. Between mood...