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Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity by Sharon Patricia Holland 9780822324751 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £9.00Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that... -
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria by Brian Larkin 9780822340904 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £9.40Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of... -
Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary by June Yip 9780822333579 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £9.72In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island-with its complex history of colonization-presents a particularly fascinating case of the... -
Don't: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay Policy by Janet E. Halley 9780822323174
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90In Don't Janet E. Halley explains how the military's new anti-gay policy is fundamentally misdescribed by its common nickname, "Don't Ask/Don't Tell." This ubiquitous phrase, she points out, implies... -
The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders by Kathy Davis 9780822340454
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £73.01The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story. Selling more than four million copies since its debut in 1970, it has challenged medical dogmas about women's bodies and sexuality, shaped... -
Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond by Rob Wilson 9780822325000
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14In this compelling critique Rob Wilson explores the creation of the "Pacific Rim" in the American imagination and how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawai'i, the Pacific... -
Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973-2002 by Peter A. Winn 9780822333098
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £102.70Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neoliberal transformation. Its policies-encouraging foreign investment, privatizing public sector companies and services,... -
Eco-Nationalism: Anti-Nuclear Activism and National Identity in Russia, Lithuania, and Ukraine by Jane I. Dawson 9780822318316
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £73.01Eco-nationalism examines the spectacular rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s, and its... -
Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties by Andrea Giunta 9780822338932
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.05The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above... -
The Gloria Anzaldua Reader by Gloria Anzaldua 9780822345558
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £70.80Born in the RIo Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria AnzaldUa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera:... -
Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece by Elizabeth Anne Davis 9780822350934
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £75.84Bad Souls is an ethnographic study of responsibility among psychiatric patients and their caregivers in Thrace, the northeastern borderland of Greece. Elizabeth Anne Davis examines responsibility in... -
Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989-2006 by Steve J. Stern 9780822347125
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.00Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet's legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America's "dirty war"... -
A Lydia Maria Child Reader by Carolyn L. Karcher 9780822319498
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19From the 1820s to the 1870s, Lydia Maria Child was as familiar to the American public as her Thanksgiving song, "Over the river and through the wood, / To grandfather’s house we go," remains today... -
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses by Laura U. Marks 9780822323587 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £13.77Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working... -
The Climate Trial: Law and Justice on a Melting Planet by Noah Walker-Crawford 9781478033172
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Saúl Luciano Lliuya guides tours in the mountains and his family grow corn, wheat, barley, and potatoes on their farm in Huaraz, Peru, a community of more than 100,000 people in the Andes near... -
The Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies by Fawzia Afzal-Khan 9780822325215
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies contains essays by both leading figures and younger scholars engaged in the field of postcolonial studies. In this state-of-the-field reader, editors Fawzia... -
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses by Laura U. Marks 9780822323587
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £80.06Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working... -
Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907 by Nadja Durbach 9780822334125
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £89.10Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to government-mandated smallpox vaccination. By requiring... -
Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech by Sarah Sharma 9781478038559
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In a world seemingly run by the whims and power plays of Musks and Zucks, Insufferable Tools cuts to the core of modern technology’s gendered politics. Sarah Sharma challenges the idea that the Big... -
Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic by Julie Livingston 9780822353270
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £65.85In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their... -
Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities by Laura E. Perez 9780822338680
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.72In Alma Lopez's digital print Lupe & Sirena in Love (1999), two icons-the Virgin of Guadalupe and the mermaid Sirena, who often appears on Mexican lottery cards-embrace one another, symbolically... -
Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities by Kamari Maxine Clarke 9780822333302
Booksplease Price: £113.60Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Oyotunji African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient... -
The Creolization of Theory by Francoise Lionnet 9780822348320
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £75.45Introducing this collection of essays, FranCoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back-investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic... -
AFRICOBRA: Experimental Art Toward a School of Thought by Wadsworth A. Jarrell 9781478000426
Booksplease Price: £103.29Formed on the South Side of Chicago in 1968 at the height of the civil rights, Black power, and Black arts movements, the AFRICOBRA collective created a new artistic visual language rooted in the... -
Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription by Thomas Lamarre 9780822324829
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.06The poetry of the Heian court of Japan has typically been linked with the emergence of a distinct Japanese language and culture. This concept of a linguistically homogeneous and ethnically pure... -
The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village by Frank Salomon 9780822333906
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32None of the world's "lost writings" have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of... -
Origins of Modern Japanese Literature by Kojin Karatani 9780822313236
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.54Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a... -
Depression: A Public Feeling by Ann Cvetkovich 9780822352235
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.15In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to... -
Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies by Sarah Franklin 9780822327868 [USED COPY]
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £15.90The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory... -
When a Flower Is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist by Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef 9780822329343 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £8.67A pathbreaking contribution to Latin American testimonial literature, When a Flower Is Reborn is activist Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef's chronicle of her leadership within the Mapuche indigenous... -
Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles by Saurabh Dube 9780822333258 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £16.84Destined to become a key work of subaltern studies and a crucial intervention in postcolonial scholarship, Stitches on Time probes the relationships between empire and modernity, nation and history,... -
Stringing Together a Nation: Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906-1930 by Todd A. Diacon 9780822332107 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £24.73Focusing on one of the most fascinating and debated figures in the history of modern Brazil, Stringing Together a Nation is the first full-length study of the life and career of Candido Mariano da... -
Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign by Antony Tatlow 9780822327530 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £7.37In Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign renowned Brecht scholar Antony Tatlow uses drama to investigate cultural crossings and to show how intercultural readings or performances question... -
Archives of Empire: Volume 2. The Scramble for Africa by Barbara Harlow 9780822331520 [USED COPY]
RRP: £132.00Booksplease Price: £26.41A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to... -
Learning a Trade: A Craftsman's Notebooks: 1955-1997 by Reynolds Price 9780822321125 [USED COPY]
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £2.60From Reynolds Price, much acclaimed author of award-winning novels, plays, poems, stories, and essays, comes a work that is unique among contemporary writers of American literature. For more than... -
Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture by Anthony DeCurtis 9780822312611 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £7.52The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological... -
Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A Reader by Diane P. Freedman 9780822332008 [USED COPY]
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £8.77Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines reveals the extraordinary breadth of the intellectual movement toward self-inclusive scholarship. Presenting exemplary works of criticism incorporating... -
Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943-1991 by Stephen Gundle 9780822325307 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £6.87In the postwar years, Italy underwent a far-reaching process of industrialization that transformed the country into a leading industrial power. Throughout most of this period, the Italian Communist... -
No More Separate Spheres!: A Next Wave American Studies Reader by Cathy N. Davidson 9780822328780 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £14.06No More Separate Spheres! challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of "male public" and "female private" spheres from the founders to the... -
Pathways to Prohibition: Radicals, Moderates, and Social Movement Outcomes by Ann-Marie E. Szymanski 9780822331810 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £28.44Strategies for gradually effecting social change are often dismissed as too accommodating of the status quo. Ann-Marie E. Szymanski challenges this assumption, arguing that moderation is sometimes...