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Poetics of Relation by Betsy Wing 9780472066292
$46.73Edouard 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... -
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome Las Casas
RRP: $20.98$14.93Bartolome 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 Pablo Neruda 9781852248628
RRP: $27.28$18.06Pablo 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... -
Catching Fire: A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn
RRP: $20.98$14.68An 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,... -
Grace Nichols by Sarah Lawson Welsh 9780746309551
RRP: $39.25$27.99This 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
$88.70This 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... -
We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays, 1967-1984 by Sylvia Wynter
RRP: $83.98$59.41The 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... -
Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
RRP: $18.88$13.55In 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... -
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition and Brer Rabbit by Emily Zobel Marshall 9781783481101
RRP: $73.50$68.23Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and rules imposed by governments, communities, social groups... -
Torn from the Nest by Clorinda Matto de Turner 9780195110067
RRP: $41.98$28.01Clorinda Matto de Turner was one of the major literary figures of nineteenth-century Peru. Her first novel, Aves Sin Nido (Torn from the Nest) was a landmark work in the indigenismo genre which depicts the lives of contemporary Indians in the rural... -
Aura: By Carlos Fuentes by Peter Standish 9780719081835
RRP: $27.28$24.74Since 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,... -
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
RRP: $27.28$19.09'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... -
Myth, Literature and the African World by Wole Soyinka 9780521398343
RRP: $33.58$26.59Wole 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... -
The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean by Nick Nesbitt 9780813947099
$63.34Apologies 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 -
Autobiography of a slave - Autobiografia de un Esclavo by Juan Francisco Manzano 9780814325384
RRP: $56.60$54.50This sombre biography of an urban slave who taught himself to read and write, and who ultimately achieved fame as a poet in Cuba's slave society, is presented in both Spanish and English. There is an introduction which sets the text in its historical and... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys by Elaine Savory
RRP: $41.98$35.97Since 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... -
Summer Lightning & Other Stories by Olive Senior 9780582786271 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.15$4.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Summer Lightning & Other Stories by Olive Senior 9780582786271
$28.94Written 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... -
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
RRP: $36.73$27.89This 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: $58.70$40.61Approaching 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... -
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures by Bill Ashcroft 9780415280204
RRP: $54.58$47.52The 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... -
Poetic Intention by Edouard Glissant 9780982264539
RRP: $35.68$24.51This 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... -
Canto General by Pablo Neruda 9788437609300
RRP: $71.38$36.10Apologies 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 -
Stronger than Death: Hart Crane's Last Year in Mexico Francesca Bratton 9781529383379
RRP: $31.48$20.58'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... -
Crick Crack Monkey (Caribbean Writers Series) by Merle Hodge 9780435989514
$28.94A 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... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys by Anthony Fowles 9781906075347
$23.21Apologies 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 -
Ways of Sunlight by Sam Selvon 9780582642614
$28.94The 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges by Edwin Williamson
RRP: $50.38$42.78Jorge 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: $41.98$36.98The 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... -
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel by W.L. Bloch 9780195334579
RRP: $54.58$43.60The 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... -
Cannibal Translation Volume 44: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America by Isabel Gómez
$89.75A bold comparative study illustrating the creative potential of translations that embrace mutuality and resist assimilation Cannibal translators digest, recombine, transform, and trouble their source materials. Isabel C. Gómez makes the case for this... -
Creative Sign Language by Rachel Sutton-Spence 9781009344876
RRP: $35.70$30.91This Element describes creative sign language in deaf literature. To showcase the exciting developments in Latin American deaf literature, the authors focus upon creative Libras as it is used by the Brazilian deaf community, while emphasising aspects of... -
Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects 1950-2010 by Rebecca Kosick
RRP: $77.70$71.42Reconsiders 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... -
Harriet's Daughter (Caribbean Writers Series) by Marlene Nourbese Philip
RRP: $34.00$28.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780435989248Author Marlene Nourbese PhilipFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Heinemann Educational BooksPublisher Heinemann Educational... -
Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks': New Interdisciplinary Essays by Max Silverman
RRP: $41.98$36.98First 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... -
Contemporary Peruvian Narrative and Popular Cult - Jaime Bayly, Ivan Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides by Robert Ruz
RRP: $168.00$160.88The 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
$64.39Apologies 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)... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture by David Thatcher Gies 9780521574297 [USED COPY]
RRP: $56.68$6.43This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture by David Thatcher Gies 9780521574297
RRP: $56.68$48.72This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide... -
The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
RRP: $38.83$28.58When 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...