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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas... -
Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers: Rethinking Subjectivity by Radha Chakravarty 9780415467315
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers - Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta,... -
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield 9780141441818
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHKatherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving,... -
The Murderer by Roy Heath
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal a hammer.'Galton Flood is a lonely man, restless and ill at ease with... -
The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart No Longer at Ease Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English, the writer who 'opened the magic casements of African fiction' for an international readership. Following the 50th anniversary... -
A Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism Maggie Humm 9780745011943
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £51.53This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifies and explains the main developments and debates... -
Dat's Love by Leonora Brito 9780241999516
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A brilliant collection of short stories from Leonora Brito exploring race, identity, and love'Magical, enigmatic, distinctive, accomplished and haunting . . . Brito was ahead of her time' BERNARDINE... -
Home in British Working-Class Fiction by Nicola Wilson 9780367346546
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Home in British Working-Class Fiction offers a fresh take on British working-class writing that turns away from a masculinist, work-based understanding of class in favour of home, gender, domestic... -
Part of the Story: Writings from Half a Century by Margaret Busby 9780241686782
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.87'This fascinating and simply fantastic book is a comprehensive record of Margaret Busby's exceptional life story . . . A true trailblazer, we all walk in the deep imprints of her footsteps'... -
Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction: Homing the Metropole by Lucinda Newns
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction responds to the need for a more materialist perspective on migration by reorienting the focus on domesticity and the everyday practices of... -
Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams 9780571376414
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'The first African novel in English to draw international attention.' New York Times'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary... -
ALT 13 Recent Trends in the Novel: African Liter - A review by Eldred Durosimi Jones 9780852555132
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.14First published in 1983, this volume looks at new developments in the African novel and also at those aspects of more established works that received less critical attention, such as writing from... -
Contemporary Fiction by Jago Morrison 9780415194556
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35This is the ideal guide for those studying contemporary fiction for the first time. The last twenty-five years have seen an explosion of new developments in the English language novel. Because of its... -
Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East by Lila Abu-Lughod
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil... -
Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria by Wendy Griswold 9780691058290
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.59Greed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers... -
West African Women in the Diaspora: Narratives of Other Spaces, Other Selves by Rose A. Sackeyfio 9781032113098
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.38This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.In recent years a compelling array of critically acclaimed fiction... -
Eccentric Propositions: Essays on Literature and the Curriculum by Jane Miller
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04Originally published in 1984. This book charts important changes brought about by teachers in the way literature is read and written about in schools. Rooted in experiences of inner-city schools, it... -
Legacies of Departed African Women Writers: Matrix of Creativity and Power by Helen O. Chukwuma 9781666914672
Booksplease Price: £37.42Legacies of Departed African Women Writers: Matrix of Creativity and Power proffers varied perspectives of the invaluable contributions of ten deceased African writers from all across Africa who have... -
Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender Florence Stratton 9780415097710
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23The influence of colonialism and race on the development of African literature has been the subject of a number of studies. The effect of patriarchy and gender, however, and indeed the contributions... -
The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership by Mukoma Wa Ngugi
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.63The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that... -
The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership by Mukoma Wa Ngugi 9780472073689
Booksplease Price: £67.25The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that... -
Student Encyclopedia of African Literature by Douglas Killam 9780313335808
Booksplease Price: £81.77African literature is a vast subject of growing output and interest. Written especially for students, this book selectively surveys the topic in a clear and accessible way. Included are roughly 600... -
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens Alice Walker 9780753819609
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.60The first collection of Alice Walker's non-fiction spanning fifteen years in the career of this remarkable writer.This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially... -
West African Women in the Diaspora: Narratives of Other Spaces, Other Selves by Rose A. Sackeyfio 9781032113067
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.In recent years a compelling array of critically acclaimed fiction... -
Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel by Janice Ho
Booksplease Price: £32.12Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel charts how novelists imagined changing forms of citizenship in twentieth-century Britain. This study offers a new way of understanding... -
Modern British Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide by Vicki K. Janik 9780313310300
Booksplease Price: £76.81The 20th century witnessed several major cultural movements, including modernism, anti-modernism, and postmodernism. These and other means of understanding and perceiving the world shaped the... -
Tracing Personal Expansion: Reading Selected Novels as Modern African Bildungsroman by Walter P. Collins 9780761834830
Booksplease Price: £38.41How can Africans escape the control of the complex power relationships established during Colonization and successfully achieve self-development? More importantly, and the primary concern of this... -
Contemporary Fiction by Jago Morrison
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81This is the ideal guide for those studying contemporary fiction for the first time. The last twenty-five years have seen an explosion of new developments in the English language novel. Because of its... -
Writing Black Britain, 1948-98: An Interdisciplinary Anthology by James Procter
Booksplease Price: £23.54The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume.... -
Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Booksplease Price: £30.43This text takes a close look at eight Nigerian women writers and proposes a new vernacular theory based on their work. Flora Nwapa, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Buchi Emecheta, Funmilayo Fakunle, Ifeoma Okoye,... -
Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Siga Fatima Jagne 9780313290565
Booksplease Price: £66.27Postcolonial African writers have made an enormous contribution to world literature. These writers frequently examine such issues as emerging identities in the postcolonial climate, neo-colonialism... -
Negotiating Identities in Women's Lives: English Postcolonial and Contemporary British Novels by Christine Wick Sizemore 9780313321634
Booksplease Price: £76.51Women face different psychological issues at different ages. But these issues and the experience of confronting them depend on cultural contexts. Literary works represent these psychological and... -
ALT 43: Afrifuturism by Ernest Ernest Cole 9781847014184
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.37This issue of ALT provides content narratives, critical frames and theoretical constructs to read and critique writings in the emerging genre of Afrifuturism. In contrast to Afrofuturism, which... -
Cultural Institutions of the Novel by Deidre Lynch
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91The story of the development of the novel-its origin, rise, and increasing popularity as a narrative form in an ever-expanding range of geographic and cultural sites-is familiar and, according to the... -
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Cultural Institutions of the Novel by Deidre Lynch 9780822318545 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £10.40The story of the development of the novel-its origin, rise, and increasing popularity as a narrative form in an ever-expanding range of geographic and cultural sites-is familiar and, according to the... -
New Novels in African Literature Today - ALT 27 by Ernest N. Emenyonu
Booksplease Price: £25.91This issue of African Literature Today focuses on new novels by emerging as well as established African novelists. This is a seminal work that discusses the validity of the perception that the new... -
Can These Bones Live?: Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory by Bella Brodzki 9780804755429
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Can These Bones Live? views translation as a mode of literary invigoration-indeed, as a process at the core of all important cultural transactions-rather than a mere utilitarian means of converting... -
ALT 35: Focus on Egypt - African Literature Today by Ernest N. Emenyonu 9781847011718
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38As well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement. Creativity has flourished in Egypt, a historically... -
Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference by Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56"This is a cogent analysis of the complexities of gender in the work of nine contemporary Anglophone and Francophone novelists. . . . offers illuminating interpretations of worthy writers . . . "... -
The Twelve Best Books by African Women: Critical Readings by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi 9780896802667
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92In 2002, at the annual Zimbabwe International Book Fair, twelve literary books by African women were included for the first time in the category of "Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century."...