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Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination by Darieck Scott
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.46Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series 2011 Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award presented by the Modern Language Association Challenging the conception of empowerment... -
The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present Fredric Jameson 9781804295892
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.38Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible... -
Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century by Arturo J. Aldama
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.75The interdisciplinary essays in Decolonial Voices discuss racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions. This... -
Graveyard Clay: Cre na Cille by Mairtin O Cadhain
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47A brilliant new translation of O Cadhain's modern Irish literature masterpiece, meant to spark debate and comparison with Alan Titley's Dirty Dust, now with bonus materials on its history, reception,... -
Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War by Anton Kaes
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $35.56Shell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting... -
All Souls: Poems Saskia Hamilton 9781472158741
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A TLS, SPECTATOR AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023'Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia... -
Elementary Korean: Second Edition (Includes Access to Website for Native Speaker Audio Recordings) Ross King, Ph.D. 9780804844987
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $25.31This is a comprehensive and detailed introductory Korean textbook and language learning package.Korean is now the 11th most popular language taught at American universities. This new edition of... -
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.94Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the... -
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story That Created Us by Stephen Greenblatt
Booksplease Price: $12.76The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here,... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin 9781487558253
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $25.49In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed... -
Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance by Uri McMillan
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $35.00How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an... -
Big Girl: 'Absolutely incredible. Beautiful, powerful writing. These pages will stay with me forever' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of QUEENIE by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan 9780349017846
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE AND THE LAMBDA AWARD*'Absolutely incredible. Beautiful, powerful writing. These pages will... -
Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka 9780231185752
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $33.78The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and... -
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen J. Greenblatt 9780393343403
Booksplease Price: $12.42In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and... -
In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman A. Waberi
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.46In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. On... -
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai 9780674088122
RRP: $28.07Booksplease Price: $24.05The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often... -
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship by Dana A. Williams 9780063011984
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84NPR SPRING PICKAn insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound impact as a visionary editor who... -
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton 9781517901738
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.73Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library... -
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RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $3.44The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by... -
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393912524 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $3.73The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by... -
Kafka: The Early Years by Reiner Stach 9780691178189
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.08How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before,... -
Fictional Minds by Alan Palmer 9780803218352
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the...