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A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's Midsummer, Tobago by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375384360
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375384360Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36I -
Interlocking Basins of a Globe: Essays on Derek Walcott by Jean Antoine-Dunne 9781845232207
Booksplease Price: £21.53Interlocking Basins of a Globe is a fascinating new study of the first Caribbean writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Derek Walcott. The essays range from critical discussion of Walcott's... -
A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's Sea Canes by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375387514
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375387514Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 40I -
Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing by Philip Dickinson 9783319889238
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination. From the decolonizing poetics of the Caribbean to the white... -
Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas by Sarah Phillips Casteel 9780813926384
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27Diaspora studies have tended to privilege urban landscapes over rural ones, wanting to avoid the racial homogeneity, conservatism, and xenophobia usually associated with the latter. In ""Second... -
Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas by Sarah Phillips Casteel 9780813926391
Booksplease Price: £29.87Diaspora studies have tended to privilege urban landscapes over rural ones, wanting to avoid the racial homogeneity, conservatism, and xenophobia usually associated with the latter. In ""Second... -
![Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's ""Omeros by Robert D. Hamner 9780826211248](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2770204/2769541/9780826211248__88049.1714783815.jpg?c=1 "Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's ""Omeros by Robert D. Hamner 9780826211248")
Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's ""Omeros by Robert D. Hamner 9780826211248
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £49.42This analysis of Walcott's ""Omeros"", argues that the poem is an innovative extension of the epic tradition. The book examines Walcott's writing career and traces his development of devices, themes,... -
![Allusions in "Omeros: Notes and a Guide to Derek Walcott's Masterpiece by Maria McGarrity 9780813061009](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5192345/5269607/9780813061009__95370.1724629160.jpg?c=1 "Allusions in "Omeros: Notes and a Guide to Derek Walcott's Masterpiece by Maria McGarrity 9780813061009")
Allusions in "Omeros: Notes and a Guide to Derek Walcott's Masterpiece by Maria McGarrity 9780813061009
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £46.93Omeros, a transatlantic Homeric epic poem, is widely considered the masterwork of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and one of the most important pieces of postcolonial Caribbean literature. Yet it is... -
Beating A Restless Drum: The Poetics of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott by June D. Bobb 9780865436008
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £15.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865436008Author June D BobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
The Crowning of a Poet's Quest: Derek Walcott's <i>Tiepolo's Hound</i> by Paola Loreto 9789042026384
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Saint Lucian Writers and Writing: An Author Index: Published Works of Poetry, Prose, Drama by John Robert Lee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.44This "magnificent act of scholarship" is a comprehensive author index of poetry, prose (fiction and non-fiction) and drama from the eastern Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. It also includes... -
Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature by Kelly Baker Josephs 9780813935065
Booksplease Price: £30.06Exploring the prevalence of madness in Caribbean texts written in English in the mid-twentieth century, Kelly Baker Josephs focuses on celebrated writers such as Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek... -
Derek Walcott's Poetry Deconstructed, Its Political and Sociological Discourse Revealed by Daurius Figueira 9789769678743
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789769678743Author Daurius FigueiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint
All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison by Natalie Melas 9780804731973
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist comparative method, it inquires into the...
All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison by Natalie Melas
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist comparative method, it inquires into the...
House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Exquisite' (New Yorker), 'breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), 'baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when it recently appeared, winning...![A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Dream on Monkey Mountain" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375379090](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4738110/4737380/9781375379090__99713.1720947028.jpg?c=1 "A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Dream on Monkey Mountain" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375379090")
A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Dream on Monkey Mountain" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375379090
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375379090Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44I
Metaliterary Katabasis in the Writings of Eavan Boland, Derek Walcott and Gloria Naylor: The Poet and the Underworld Amaranth Feuth 9781350536012
Booksplease Price: £92.62Focusing on the ancient motif of the descent into the underworld (katabasis), this book examines how three 20th-century writers - Eavan Boland, Gloria Naylor and Derek Walcott - articulate their...
New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite by Charles W. Pollard 9780813922782
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24James Clifford tells us that modernism has become a ""traveling culture"" because it reflects the ""discrepant cosmopolitanism"" of the twentieth century - that is, a world in which people are...![A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry From Africa" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375374866](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4680718/4679991/9781375374866__97838.1720582892.jpg?c=1 "A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry From Africa" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375374866")
A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry From Africa" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375374866
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375374866Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 30I
I and I: Epitaphs for Self in the Work of V.S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott by Rhonda Cobham-Sander 9789766405762
Booksplease Price: £36.56When V.S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott published their first literary efforts there was no such thing as a Caribbean literary tradition. By the end of the twentieth century their work...
Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama: "Not Only a Playwright But a Company". The Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959-1993 by Bruce King 9780198184645
Booksplease Price: £34.54Written at Derek Walcott's suggestion, and based on interviews with the playwright and actors, this is the first detailed study of a post-colonial theatre company and the problems of creating...
Castings: Monuments and Monumentality in Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney by Guy Rotella 9780826514530
Booksplease Price: £37.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826514530Author Guy RotellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A Financial Times Book of the Year Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning...
The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry by Adam Kirsch 9780393062717
RRP: £41.50Booksplease Price: £35.46Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and other magazines, Adam Kirsch-"one of the most promising young poet-critics in America" (Los Angeles Times)-has...
Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution by Laurie R. Lambert 9780813944258
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £50.72In 1979, the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement under Maurice Bishop overthrew the government of the Caribbean island country of Grenada, establishing the People's Revolutionary Government. The...
Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Carrie Conners 9781496839534
Booksplease Price: £99.43Humor in recent American poetry has been largely dismissed or ignored by scholars, due in part to a staid reverence for the lyric. Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late...
Postcolonial Literary Geographies: Out of Place by John Thieme 9781137456861
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £75.80This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as...
Staging the Lyric: Modern and Contemporary Experiments with Verse Drama by Sarah Berry 9781350420380
Booksplease Price: £85.65Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and...
Crusoe's Footprint by Patrick Chamoiseau 9780813949055
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27The discovery in Robinson Crusoe of the footprint of a fellow human on an abandoned island is a haunting and iconic moment in world literature. In the hands of Patrick Chamoiseau, one of the most...
The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making by Yountae An 9781478020127
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.76In 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...
The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions by Arnab Dutta Roy 9781772127706
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £28.68Offering a fresh comparative lens, this volume demonstrates how postcolonial writers have transformed the Bildungsroman from an eighteenth-century European genre meant to explore local themes around...
Atlantic Theory: On the Vicissitudes of Relation John E. Drabinski 9781399549271
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.68This largely new collection of essays explores how the history of empire has impacted the intellectual life of the Atlantic world through treatments of key figures in Atlantic theory, including...
Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature David Attwell 9781032241180
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English. Bringing together young and established...
The Same Earth by Kei Miller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From the WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2014, a 'humorous, bittersweet fiction, combin[ing] the fantastical realism of Marquez with the domestic comedy of Andrea Levy' INDEPENDENTIt...
Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Zachary Tavlin
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12How the "glance" rather than the "gaze" in nineteenth-century literature and art anticipates the turn to modernism The sweeping vantages that typify American landscape painting from the nineteenth...
Global Anglophone Poetry: Literary Form and Social Critique in Walcott, Muldoon, de Kok, and Nagra by Omaar Hena 9781137502872
Booksplease Price: £46.74Poetry's relevancy as a tool for social and political change continues to be overlooked in a global context. Looking to writers as diverse as Derek Walcott, Paul Muldoon, and Daljit Nagra, Hena shows...
Archiving Sovereignty: Law, History, Violence by Stewart Motha 9780472053865
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.78Archiving Sovereignty shows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Law's complicity with imperial and neocolonial practices occurs when courts inscribe and repeat the...
Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature by J. Dillon Brown 9781496813046
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of emigre novelists based in postwar London,...
Archiving Sovereignty: Law, History, Violence by Stewart Motha 9780472073863
Booksplease Price: £74.70Archiving Sovereignty shows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Law's complicity with imperial and neocolonial practices occurs when courts inscribe and repeat the...