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Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature by Sonia Saldivar-Hull
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $47.82In this bold contribution to contemporary feminist theory, Sonia Saldivar-Hull argues for a feminism that transcends national borders and ethnic identities. Grounding her work in an analysis of the... -
Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image Caxton Club 9780226468501
Booksplease Price: $65.88Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair's... -
A Dream Called Home: A Memoir by Reyna Grande
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $25.22"Here is a life story so unbelievable, it could only be true." -Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street From bestselling author of the remarkable memoir The Distance Between... -
Radical Chicana Poetics by Ricardo F. Vivancos Perez 9781137343574
Booksplease Price: $97.19Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Perez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal... -
Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas Theresa Delgadillo 9780472076932
Booksplease Price: $174.83Geographies of Relation offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of race, ethnicity, and gender in imagining and enacting... -
Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas Theresa Delgadillo 9780472056934
RRP: $69.20Booksplease Price: $65.39Geographies of Relation offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of race, ethnicity, and gender in imagining and enacting... -
Radical Chicana Poetics by Ricardo F. Vivancos Perez 9781349465781
Booksplease Price: $98.15Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Perez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal... -
Other Musics: New Latina Poetry by Cynthia Cruz 9780806162881
Booksplease Price: $38.09Latina poets occupy an important place in today's literary landscape. Coming from diverse backgrounds, they share an understanding of what it means to exist within the margins of society. As artists,... -
Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference by Ramon Saldivar 9780299124748
Booksplease Price: $31.98An examination of representative aspects of Mexican-American narrative forms including the novel, short story, narrative verse and autobiography. It includes studies of works from Americo Parades'... -
The Illinois Chronicles: The Story of the State of Illinois from its Birth to the Present Day by Mark Skipworth 9780995577015
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $25.26In celebration of its official Bicentennial year, take a trip through the incredible history of Illinois with this fascinating timeline book that brings to life 200 years of the State's history... -
We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place Cordelia E. Barrera 9781648433733
Booksplease Price: $61.57In the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is "a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging... -
The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.88In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears,... -
Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas: Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature by Anna Marie Sandoval
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Weaving strands of Chicana and Mexicana subjectivities, Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas explores political and theoretical agendas, particularly those that undermine the patriarchy, across... -
Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art by Marci R. McMahon 9780813560953
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $187.78Winner of the 2014 NACCS Tejas Non-Fiction Book Award This interdisciplinary study explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use... -
Bodies in a Broken World: Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine by Ann Folwell Stanford 9780807854808
Booksplease Price: $83.06In this multidisciplinary study, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written by U.S. women of color to propose a rethinking of modern medical practice, arguing that personal health and social... -
Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays by Cathy Lynn Preston 9781138974432
RRP: $77.68Booksplease Price: $70.83First published in 1996. The need to write, particularly in pre-technological recording days, in order to preserve and to analyze, lies at the heart of folklore and yet to write means to change the... -
Tongue Ties: Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature by G. Firmat 9781349527175
Booksplease Price: $97.19'Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater'. So writes Firmat in this ground-breaking study of the interweaving of life and... -
Earthships: A New Mecca Poetry Collection by Zachary Kluckman 9780615144184
RRP: $25.10Booksplease Price: $24.70Capturing more than 70 voices from the current poetry evolution in New Mexico, this anthology gathers together the power and presence of both traditional page poetry and performance poetry, including... -
Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays by Cathy Lynn Preston
RRP: $203.68Booksplease Price: $179.55First published in 1996. The need to write, particularly in pre-technological recording days, in order to preserve and to analyze, lies at the heart of folklore and yet to write means to change the... -
Transnational Latina Narratives in the Twenty-first Century: The Politics of Gender, Race, and Migrations by Juanita Heredia 9780230617377
Booksplease Price: $98.15Transnational Latina Narratives is the first critical study of its kind to examine twenty-first-century Latina narratives by female authors of diverse Latin American heritages based in the U.S... -
Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor: A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa and America by Patsy J. Daniels
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $100.38This book examines works from twelve authors from colonized cultures who write in English: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong Kinston, Amy Tan, Toni... -
Discovering Fiction Level 1 Student's Book: A Reader of North American Short Stories by Judith Kay 9781107652224
Booksplease Price: $76.42Discovering Fiction features short stories that enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. Discovering Fiction, Second Edition, Student's Book 1 presents... -
Popular Culture: An Introduction by Carla A. Freccero 9780814726693
Booksplease Price: $190.20From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised,... -
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems by Joy Harjo
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.15She draws from the Native American tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of American culture, and the concept of feminine individuality.About the AuthorJoy Harjo is a member of... -
Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men: Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature by Mary Paniccia Carden 9781611483444
Booksplease Price: $202.34At a moment in which America seems simultaneously more closed and more open to change than ever before, Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men: Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature... -
The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas by Lois Parkinson Zamora 9780521582537
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $181.52How can we know the past? How can we speak of it in literary forms? Why should we want to? Concentrating on the past as both the subject of fiction and as a force for inscribing fiction, The Usable... -
The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas by Lois Parkinson Zamora
Booksplease Price: $67.45How can we know the past? How can we speak of it in literary forms? Why should we want to? Concentrating on the past as both the subject of fiction and as a force for inscribing fiction, The Usable... -
Boneshaker by Jan Beatty
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $27.59Hard-hitting, sophisticated, lyrical exploration of the meaning of the body. Questions icons and invokes taboos.About the AuthorJan Beatty's fourth full-length poetry collection, The Switching/Yard,... -
The Consequences: Stories by Manuel Munoz
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Shimmering writing depicting California's Central Valley, the first book in a decade from a virtuoso story writer. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that... -
Popular Culture: An Introduction by Carla A. Freccero 9780814726709
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.67The concise introduction to the study of popular culture From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the... -
100 More Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies by Bernard A. Drew 9781563089206
Booksplease Price: $140.47A companion title to 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors, this book features another 100 biographical sketches and biographies of popular young adult authors. In addition to authors that did not... -
Beginning Ethnic American Literatures by Helena Grice
Booksplease Price: $30.18Since the late 1960s, American literature has been revitalised by the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros and Maxine Hong Kingston. An introduction to the study of... -
Malika Favre: Kama Sutra A-Z by Malika Favre 9781916126176
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $64.53In Kama Sutra A–Z Malika Favre blends typography, illustration, design and erotica in this exquisitely produced limited edition. The 'Kama Sutra A-Z' was initially developed by Malika Favre in 2013... -
Reading Processes and Structures: An American Language Text by Brian Altano 9780472030477
Booksplease Price: $65.31Reading skills practice for struggling readers Reading Processes and Structures contains reading materials and skill development exercises to improve students' cultural literacy and prepare them for... -
In the Spirit of a New People: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement by Randy J. Ontiveros 9780814738849
Booksplease Price: $190.20Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, In the Spirit of a New People brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for... -
Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art by Marci R. McMahon 9780813560946
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $51.66This interdisciplinary study explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through... -
Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature by Michelle M. Tokarczyk
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $65.50This book is one of the first collections on a neglected field in American literature: that written by and about the working-class. Examining literature from the 1850s to the present, contributors... -
Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America by Long Le-Khac 9781503611467
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $162.52Crossing distinct literatures, histories, and politics, Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America reveals the intertwined story of contemporary Asian Americans and Latinxs through a shared literary... -
Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belonging by Maya Socolovsky 9780813561172
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $51.66This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of... -
Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature by Michelle M. Tokarczyk 9780415885461
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $184.95This book is one of the first collections on a neglected field in American literature: that written by and about the working-class. Examining literature from the 1850s to the present, contributors...