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Dreaming in Dark Times: Six Exercises in Political Thought by Sharon Sliwinski
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47What do dreams manage to say-or indeed, show-about human experience that is not legible otherwise? Can the disclosure of our dream-life be understood as a form of political avowal? To what does a... -
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature by Ato Quayson
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £34.10This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial... -
The Postcolonial Gramsci Neelam Srivastava 9780415748148
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98The importance of Antonio Gramsci's work for postcolonial studies can hardly be exaggerated, and in this volume, contributors situate Gramsci's work in the vast and complex oeuvre of postcolonial... -
Indian Literature and the World: Multilingualism, Translation, and the Public Sphere by Neelam Srivastava 9781137545497
Booksplease Price: £91.38This book is about the most vibrant yet under-studied aspects of Indian writing today. It examines multilingualism, current debates on postcolonial versus world literature, the impact of translation... -
The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle by Fatimah Tobing Rony
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Charting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, Fatimah Tobing Rony explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in... -
Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04The intellectual history of the last quarter of this century has been marked by the growing influence of Africana thought--an area of philosophy that focuses on issues raised by the struggle over... -
Revolution Today by Susan Buck-Morss
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Susan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, "progress = modernization through industrialization," to which it... -
Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion by Yountae An 9781478011880
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.59Beyond Man reimagines the meaning and potential of a philosophy of religion that better attends to the inextricable links among religion, racism, and colonialism. An Yountae, Eleanor Craig, and the... -
Contact Zones: Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema by Sheila J. Petty 9780814330999
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48This title explores the contributions of black diasporic filmmakers and thinkers to contemporary artistic and theoretical discourses.Created at the crossroads of slavery, migration, and exile, and... -
A Critique of Coloniality: Eight Essays by Rita Segato
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83This translation of Rita Segato's seminal book La critica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos offers an anthropological and critical perspective on the coloniality of power as theorized by the... -
Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion by Yountae An
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Beyond Man reimagines the meaning and potential of a philosophy of religion that better attends to the inextricable links among religion, racism, and colonialism. An Yountae, Eleanor Craig, and the... -
Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination by Teshale Tibebu
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A critical study of Edward Wilmot Blyden, whose voluminous writings laid the groundwork for some of the most important African and black diasporic thinkers of the twentieth century. Edward Wilmot... -
Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives by Lisa Guenther
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons-even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according... -
The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form by Julie Beth Napolin 9780823288175
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £80.10Shortlisted, 2021 Memory Studies Association First Book Award The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an... -
Postcolonial Criticism by Bart Moore-Gilbert 9780582237988
Booksplease Price: £78.52Post-colonial theory is a relatively new area in critical contemporary studies, having its foundations more Postcolonial Criticism brings together some of the most important critical writings in the... -
The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle by Fatimah Tobing Rony 9780822318347
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14Charting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, Fatimah Tobing Rony explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in... -
Race otherwise: Forging a new humanism for South Africa by Zimitri Erasmus 9781776140589
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48'People from different parts of the world ask 'what mix' I am. Which would you prefer? Salt and vinegar or cinnamon and sugar? Neither one of my parents was black Black. Neither one of them was white... -
Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism, and the Nation by Imre Szeman 9780801868030
Booksplease Price: £49.46Attempts by writers and intellectuals in former colonies to create unique national cultures are often thwarted by a context of global modernity, which discourages particularity and uniqueness. In... -
How to Read Hegel Now Shannon Hoff 9780226847085
Booksplease Price: £26.68A powerful exploration of how Hegel's ideas about freedom can speak to social injustice today. One might be forgiven for feeling that the philosophical tradition, notoriously replete with seemingly... -
Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter by Lori Jo Marso
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In Politics with Beauvoir Lori Jo Marso treats Simone de Beauvoir's feminist theory and practice as part of her political theory, arguing that freedom is Beauvoir's central concern and that this is... -
Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant by Nick Nesbitt 9781786940384
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.39Caribbean 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... -
Revolution Today by Susan Buck-Morss 9781608466832
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £52.30Susan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, "progress = modernization through industrialization," to which it... -
The War Against Women Rita Segato 9781509562138
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Recent decades of neoliberal rule have seen authoritarian turns in many governments, and these decades have also been marked by increasing violence against women. The systematic killing of women in... -
Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital by Bhakti Shringarpure
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This book bridges the gap between the simultaneously unfolding histories of postcoloniality and the forty-five-year ideological and geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Not only did... -
An Ethics of Dissensus: Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy by Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36What kind of challenge does sexual and racial difference pose for postmodern ethics? What is the relation between ethical obligation and feminist interpretations of embodiment, passion, and eros? How... -
Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination by Nigel C. Gibson 9780745622613
Booksplease Price: £20.70Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the postwar period. A veritable "intellect on... -
Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism by Ranjana Khanna 9780822330554
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a "dark continent" for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley's use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While... -
Camus and Fanon on the Algerian Question: An Ethics of Rebellion Pedro Tabensky 9780367749910
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This is the first book to offer a systematic comparison of the philosophies of Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon. It shows how the ethical, political, and psychological outlooks of these two influential... -
Race and Racism: A Decolonial Approach Linda Martín Alcoff 9780197796917
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.18Race and Racism: A Decolonial Approach argues that the topics of race and racism need a decolonial framing if we are to understand their genealogy in the modern world, and explores their current... -
Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges by Abraham Olivier 9781438494869
Booksplease Price: £27.36The first edited collection to offer a systematic introduction to African phenomenology.African phenomenology is an emerging subfield within the broader domain of African and Africana philosophy. The... -
Violence: Thinking without Banisters by Richard J. Bernstein 9780745670638
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can't escape representations of actual or fictional... -
The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making by Yountae An 9781478025108
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In The Coloniality of the Secular, An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas. Drawing on the work of... -
Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Literature by Marie-Chantal Kalisa 9780803211025
Booksplease Price: £45.06African and Caribbean peoples share a history dominated by the violent disruptions of slavery and colonialism. While much has been said about these "geographies of pain," violence in the private... -
Creolizing the Nation by Kris Sealey 9780810142350
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Creolizing the Nation identifies the nation-form as a powerful resource for political struggles against colonialism, racism, and other manifestations of Western hegemony in the Global South even as... -
Rethinking Existentialism by Jonathan Webber 9780198866763
Booksplease Price: £31.52bIn iRethinking Existentialism/i, Jonathan Webber articulates an original interpretation of existentialism as the ethical theory that human freedom is the foundation of all other values./b ... -
The Lost Thread: The Democracy of Modern Fiction by Jacques Ranciere
Booksplease Price: £23.65In The Lost Thread, Ranciere debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologies, and instead foregrounds the egalitarian and... -
Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism by Ranjana Khanna
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a "dark continent" for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley's use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While... -
Violence: Thinking without Banisters Richard J. Bernstein (New School University, New York) 9780745670645
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can't escape representations of actual or fictional... -
The War Against Women Rita Segato 9781509562121
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Recent decades of neoliberal rule have seen authoritarian turns in many governments, and these decades have also been marked by increasing violence against women. The systematic killing of women in... -
Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of the Book of Jeremiah by Steed Vernyl Davidson 9780567655264
Booksplease Price: £40.79Empire and Exile explores the impact of Babylonian aggression upon the book of Jeremiah by calling attention to the presence of the empire and showing how the book of Jeremiah can be read as...