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A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375377577
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $12.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375377577Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 48I -
Reclaiming Difference: Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism by Carine M. Mardorossian 9780813923475
Booksplease Price: $32.22In ""Reclaiming Difference"", Carine Mardorossian examines the novels of four women writers - Jean Rhys (Dominica/UK), Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe/USA), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/USA), and Julia Alvarez... -
Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat by Maia L. Butler 9781496839879
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77Contributions by Cecile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadege T. Clitandre, Thadious Davis, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Dawkins, Megan... -
Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat by Maia L. Butler 9781496839886
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A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Dew Breaker" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375378888
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375378888Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44I -
Neighbor-Homes: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora Megan Jeanette Myers 9781032879765
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Neighbor-Homes: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora analyzes the work of two of the most acclaimed contemporary American and Caribbean authors for the first time in a... -
Black Hibiscus: African Americans and the Florida Imaginary by John Wharton Lowe 9781496848598
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77Contributions by Simone A. Alexander, Jose Felipe Alvergue, Valerie Babb, Pamela Bordelon, Taylor Hagood, Joyce Marie Jackson, Delia Malia Konzett, Jane Landers, John Wharton Lowe, Gary Monroe,... -
Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean by RenA (c)e Larrier
Booksplease Price: $31.14Larrier breaks new ground in analyzing first-person narratives by five Francophone Caribbean writers--Joseph Zobel, Patrick Chamoiseau, Gisele Pineau, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Conde--that... -
Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature by Jenna Grace Sciuto 9781496833457
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature, author Jenna Grace Sciuto analyzes literary depictions of sexual policing of the color... -
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Characters with disabilities are often overlooked in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai, Jhumpa... -
Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature by Megan J. Myers 9780813943077
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $69.71Because of their respective histories of colonization and independence, the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic has developed into the largest economy of the Caribbean, while Haiti, occupying the... -
Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature by Megan J. Myers 9780813943084
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.28Because of their respective histories of colonization and independence, the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic has developed into the largest economy of the Caribbean, while Haiti, occupying the... -
Multilingual Currents in Literature, Translation and Culture Rachael Gilmour 9780367667603
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $63.26At a time increasingly dominated by globalization, migration, and the clash between supranational and ultranational ideologies, the relationship between language and borders has become more... -
American Fiction of the 1990s: Reflections of history and culture by Jay Prosser
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $34.74American Fiction of the 1990s: Reflections of History and Culture brings together essays from international experts to examine one of the most vital and energized decades in American literature. This... -
Freeman's Home: The Best New Writing on Home by John Freeman
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26The third literary anthology in the series that has been called 'ambitious' (O Magazine) and 'strikingly international' (Boston Globe), Freeman's: Home, continues to push boundaries in diversity and... -
Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation by Sorcha Gunne 9780415896689
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $62.15The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these... -
Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature: Remitting the Text by Kezia Page 9781138816190
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural... -
Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing by Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.78Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Feminity in Present-day Transnational Diasporic Writing explores the role of women in the current globailized era as active migrants. Silvia Pellicer-Ortin and... -
Diasporic Women's Writing of the Black Atlantic: (En)Gendering Literature and Performance Emilia Maria Duran-Almarza 9781138383241
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $67.65This book brings together a complete set of approaches to works by female authors that articulate the black Atlantic in relation to the interplay of race, class, and gender. The chapters provide the... -
African Diasporic Women's Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship by Simone A. James Alexander 9780813062051
Booksplease Price: $30.69Using feminist and womanist theory, Simone Alexander takes as her main point of analysis literary works that focus on the black female body as the physical and metaphorical site of migration. She... -
Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis Lauren Levine 9781032434742
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $42.43In this compelling book, Lauren Levine explores the transformative power of stories and storytelling in psychoanalysis to heal psychic wounds and create shared symbolic meaning and coherence out of... -
Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas by Jay Watson 9781496806345
RRP: $117.39Booksplease Price: $91.33At the turn of the millennium, the Martinican novelist Edouard Glissant offered the bold prediction that ""Faulkner's oeuvre will be made complete when it is revisited and made vital by African... -
Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture by Angelique V. Nixon 9781496813268
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian AwardTourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and spread more than just blankets and dollars. Indeed tourism has overly... -
AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction Rochelle Spencer 9781032082370
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49Examining the surrealist novels of several contemporary writers including Edwidge Danticat, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Junot Diaz, Helen Oyeyemi, and Colson Whitehead, AfroSurrealism, the first... -
Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture by Angelique V. Nixon 9781628462180
Booksplease Price: $128.26Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian AwardTourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and spread more than just blankets and dollars. Indeed tourism has overly... -
Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas by Jay Watson 9781496818393
Booksplease Price: $41.14At the turn of the millennium, the Martinican novelist Edouard Glissant offered the bold prediction that ""Faulkner's oeuvre will be made complete when it is revisited and made vital by African... -
Haiti and the Revolution Unseen: The Persistence of the Decolonial Imagination by Natalie Marie Léger 9780826507877
Booksplease Price: $41.67With Haiti and the Revolution Unseen, Natalie Marie Leger alters the genealogy of the Haitian revolutionary subject in the archive of Caribbean cultural thought and shifts our attention to the... -
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save usWhen Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart. She didn't know why her parents began... -
Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean: Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience by Elvira Pulitano
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary... -
Connecting Histories: Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past by Bonnie Thomas 9781496825674
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands... -
Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature Maria Antonia Oliver-Rotger 9781138547421
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $63.26This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes... -
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die by James Mustich 9781523504459
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $32.44"The ultimate literary bucket list." -The Washington Post "If there's a heaven just for readers, this is it." -O, The Oprah Magazine Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of... -
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era by Tiffany Austin
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers... -
The Moment: Changemakers on Why and How They Joined the Fight for Social Justice by Steve Fiffer 9781588384751
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $24.14They are as diverse as America. Young and old. Of color and white. Urban and rural. Immigrants and native born. They are students and teachers. Athletes and artists. Lawyers, doctors, politicians,... -
Cannibal Writes: Eating Others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women's Writing by Njeri Githire
RRP: $59.34Booksplease Price: $49.45Postcolonial and diaspora studies scholars and critics have paid increasing attention to the use of metaphors of food, eating, digestion, and various affiliated actions such as loss of appetite,... -
Black Feminisms in the Americas by Ginetta E. B. Candelario
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Bringing together Black feminist conversations and debates taking place across the transnational Americas, North and South, this special issue covers, among other topics, #BlackGirlMagic, Black... -
How To Escape From A Leper Colony: A Novella and Stories by Tiphanie Yanique 9781555975500
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.39Lyrical, lush and haunting, the prose shimmers in this nuanced debut, set primarily in the US Virgin Islands. Part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, How to Escape from a Leper Colony is... -
Market Aesthetics: The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction by Elena Machado Saez 9780813937052
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.28In Market Aesthetics, Elena Machado Saez explores the popularity of Caribbean diasporic writing within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and pan-ethnic framework. She contests established readings... -
The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination by Professor Maxine Lavon Montgomery 9781350248557
Booksplease Price: $41.10Exploring postapocalypticism in the Black literary and cultural tradition, this book extends the scholarly conversation on Afro-futurist canon formation through an examination of futuristic... -
Haiti Anthology by 9781558762305
RRP: $39.93Booksplease Price: $35.17Haiti's dramatic history, pressing social problems, and rich culture make it one of the most fascinating nations in the Americas. This book aims to reflect some of Haiti's extraordinary diversity...