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Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant by Nick Nesbitt 9781786940384
RRP: $51.44$46.96Caribbean 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... -
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome Las Casas
RRP: $15.42$11.06Bartolome 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... -
Th Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
RRP: $22.28$14.75Pablo 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... -
Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions: Like Water for Chocolate / The Law of Love / Swift as Desire / Malinche: A Novel by Elizabeth Moore Willingham
$174.98Outstanding essayists in Latin American literature and film explore Laura Esquivel's critical reputation, contextualise her work in literary movements, and consider her four novels and the film based on Like Water for Chocolate from diverse critical... -
Poetics of Relation by Betsy Wing 9780472066292
$38.30Edouard 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... -
Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
RRP: $15.42$11.06In 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... -
Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Rolena Adorno
RRP: $15.42$11.34A 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... -
Catching Fire: A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn
RRP: $17.14$11.99An 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,... -
We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays, 1967-1984 by Sylvia Wynter
RRP: $68.59$48.53The beginnings of the anti-colonial struggle in Jamaica coincided with the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia Wynter, providing the motivation for this, the first phase of her important body of work. The essays and articles collected here go... -
With Borges by Alberto Manguel 9781846590054
RRP: $11.99$8.65In Buenos Aires, 1964, a blind writer in his sixties approaches a sixteen-year-old bookstore clerk and asking if he would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, one of the world's finest literary minds; the boy... -
A Refuge in Thunder: Candomble and Alternative Spaces of Blackness by Rachel Elizabeth Harding
RRP: $36.00$32.63"[An important] detailing of the development and evolution of a major institution of the African Diaspora [and] of Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian identity." -Sheila S. WalkerThe Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble has long been recognized as an extraordinary... -
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
RRP: $22.28$14.53'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... -
The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction by Rachel Haywood Ferreira 9780819570826
RRP: $37.65$30.77Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction... -
The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry by Stephen M. Hart
RRP: $44.58$41.44The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive,... -
Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging by Vivian Nun Halloran
$49.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258699Author Vivian Nun HalloranFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures by Bill Ashcroft 9780415280204
RRP: $44.58$38.82The 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... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys by Elaine Savory
RRP: $34.29$31.03Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial... -
Around the World in 80 Books: A Literary Journey by David Damrosch
$26.18'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... -
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
RRP: $28.29$20.50This 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... -
Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives by Cécile Accilien 9781683403999
RRP: $47.94$34.37Approaching Haiti's history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspectiveThis volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti's complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Making broad connections between Haiti and the rest... -
Entranced Earth Volume 45: Art, Extractivism, and the End of Landscape by Jens Andermann 9780810145924
RRP: $65.10$55.82A sweeping analysis of the lasting effects of neocolonial extractivism in Latin American aesthetic modernity from 1920 to the present Looking to the extractive frontier as a focal point of Latin American art, literature, music, and film, Jens Andermann... -
Writing in the Air: Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures by Antonio Cornejo Polar
RRP: $39.43$33.62Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most... -
Canto General by Pablo Neruda 9788437609300
RRP: $58.30$29.31Apologies 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 -
New Caribbean Junior Readers 1 by Diane Browne 9780602226732
$25.51Build on infant foundations to develop the reading and language skills needed by 7 to 11 year olds in Books 1-4, and consolidate and reinforce these skills with Book 5 for the final year of Primary School. - Develop comprehension and critical thinking... -
Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community by Lois Parkinson Zamora 9780822316404
RRP: $53.17$49.14Magical 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... -
Summer Lightning & Other Stories by Olive Senior 9780582786271
$23.64Written in vivid, colourful detail, these rich, compelling stories recreate with sensitivity and wit a whole range of emotions, from childhood hope to brooding melancholy.Book InformationISBN 9780582786271Author Olive SeniorFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Stronger than Death: Hart Crane's Last Year in Mexico by Francesca Bratton 9781529383379
RRP: $25.71$16.81'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... -
Aura: By Carlos Fuentes by Peter Standish 9780719081835
RRP: $22.28$19.02Since 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,... -
Ways of Sunlight by Sam Selvon 9780582642614
$23.64The 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: $34.29$30.21First 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... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys by Anthony Fowles 9781906075347
RRP: $18.85$18.47Apologies 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 -
Myth, Literature and the African World by Wole Soyinka 9780521398343
RRP: $27.43$22.52Wole 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... -
An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature by Jean Franco
RRP: $75.46$69.45This is a revised, updated edition of Jean Franco's classic Introduction to Spanish-American Literature, first published in 1969 and much recommended ever since. Its coverage ranges from colonial times to the present day, the later chapters having been... -
Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism by Christopher Taylor
RRP: $42.87$36.42Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race... -
Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects 1950-2010 by Rebecca Kosick
RRP: $63.47$57.26Reconsiders the lyrical norm that predominates in Anglophone accounts of poetry through a multilingual and transnational lensThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they... -
The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges by Edwin Williamson
RRP: $41.15$35.92Jorge 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... -
Cervantes: Don Quixote by Anthony J. Close
RRP: $36.00$32.66Anthony Close's study places Don Quixote in the context of Cervantes' life and literary career, and in the book's cultural and social background. It focuses primarily on the central problems of Cervantine comedy, the use of burlesque, the presentation of... -
Contemporary Peruvian Narrative and Popular Cult - Jaime Bayly, Ivan Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides by Robert Ruz
RRP: $120.07$115.34The 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... -
Public Negotiations: Gender and Journalism in Contemporary Us Latina/O Literature by Ariana E Vigil
$49.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255575Author Ariana E VigilFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
West Indian Intellectuals in Britain by Bill Schwarz 9780719064753
RRP: $34.29$30.21The 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...