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Literature and Institutions of Welfare Dr Jess Cotton 9781843847311
Booksplease Price: $39.25Perspectives on the ways in which welfarist ideology has underpinned the teaching, reading and production of literature from the 1930s to the present. The welfare state in Britain established a... -
Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists by Emily Ruth Rutter 9781644532454
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $126.94Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian... -
Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists by Emily Ruth Rutter
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.35Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian... -
The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'Irreverent, spirited ... a seriously funny novel' New York Review of BooksSitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his... -
At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing by Wendy W. Walters
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Although he never lived in Harlem, Chester Himes commented that he experienced "a sort of pure homesickness" while creating the Harlem-set detective novels from his self-imposed exile in Paris... -
Out There by Darryl Pinckney 9780465057603
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $23.76With this appreciation of three very different black writers, novelist Darryl Pinckney reminds us that marginal or neglected literary figures have a lot to tell us about the history of a people who... -
The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Hubble 9781350005419
Booksplease Price: $36.86How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed... -
Writing Black Britain, 1948-98: An Interdisciplinary Anthology by James Procter
Booksplease Price: $30.37The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume.... -
Displacement, Asylum, Migration: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004 by Kate E. Tunstall 9780192807243
Booksplease Price: $49.74There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration. In this volume, based on the 2004 Oxford... -
Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Brothers and Keepers is John Edgar Wideman's seminal memoir about two brothers - one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive. Wideman recalls the capture of his younger brother Robby, details... -
The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain by Ron Ramdin
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $21.39This is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between Black workers and the changing patterns of Britain's labour needs. It places in an historical context the... -
Rewriting the Victorians: Modes of Literary Engagement with the 19th Century by Andrea Kirchknopf 9780786471348
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.27The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even... -
Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature by Dave Gunning 9781846318535
Booksplease Price: $40.20'Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature' offers the first extended exploration of the cultural impact of the politics of race and antiracism in Britain through focussing on... -
Not Quite Right For Us Sharmilla Beezmohun 9781905233632
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62Defiant, humorous, empathetic and insightful, 'Not Quite Right For Us' pierces through the hierarchical mechanics of class, race, gender. A celebration of outsiderness and an ode to otherness, 'Not... -
Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk Susheila Nasta (Open University, UK) 9780415345675
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09Writing Across Worlds brings together a selection of interviews with major international writers previously featured in the pages of the magazine. Conducted by a wide constituency of distinguished... -
Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature by Rebecca L. Walkowitz 9780231165952
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in... -
Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past by Steven Blevins 9780816697144
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $87.75Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to... -
Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction by A. Robert Lee 9780745306469
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.23Britain may have ceded empire and colonies, but its colonial past permeates every corner of the land - from street-names and restaurants to second and third generation 'immigrant' communities -... -
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.76'Until I die there will be those moments, moments seeming to rise up out of the ground like Macbeth's witches, when his face will come before me, that face in all its changes, when the exact timbre... -
Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past by Steven Blevins 9780816697168
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to... -
Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie by Daria Tunca 9781496829276
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks,... -
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature Michael A. Bucknor 9780415827942
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $65.39The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work. The volume is divided into six sections... -
Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie by Daria Tunca 9781496829269
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks,... -
Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'A wonderful bitter-sweet book, written with disarming simplicity' Esther Freud'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and... -
Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction: Theorizing Foundling and Lyric Plots by Barbara L. Estrin 9781644531068
Booksplease Price: $38.78In the first book to use fiction as theory, Barbara L. Estrin reverses chronological direction, beginning with contemporary novels to arrive at a re-visioned Shakespeare, uncovering a telling... -
Postcolonial Asylum: Seeking Sanctuary Before the Law by David Farrier 9781846318726
Booksplease Price: $40.20Postcolonial Asylum is concerned with asylum as a key emerging postcolonial field. Through an engagement with asylum legislation, legal theory and ethics, David Farrier argues that the exclusionary... -
Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture by Marina Warner
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unravelling our webs of images, ideas and beliefs, and... -
The Fabric of Subcultures: Networks, Ethnic Force Fields, and Peoples without Power by Mustapha Marrouchi 9781433113604
RRP: $108.55Booksplease Price: $96.45The Fabric of Subcultures reflects on the state of the postcolonial signature behind stylistic refinements - a world of letters relatively dependent on the West for economic and political realms, and... -
Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits James Walvin (University of York, UK) 9781119166221
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $32.53Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects. Offers a new and original approach... -
African Venice: A Guide to Art, Culture, and People Paul Kaplan 9780271099934
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $34.17African Venice is the first guidebook to the extensive historical and contemporary African presence in the city of the lagoons. A set of ten walking tours highlights images of Black people in... -
THE EYES #12 B-SIDE by Johny Pitts 9791092727470
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.22The Eyes questions cultural and societal evolutions through the prism of photography and creation and gives carte blanche to experts directly concerned by the subjects addressed. B-Side, the... -
Paradise by Toni Morrison
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. ... -
Collected Poems: Chinua Achebe by Chinua Achebe 9781857548433
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.55Chinua Achebe is one of the founding fathers of African literature in English, a writer of world stature whose novel Things Fall Apart is one of the essential works of the twentieth century. This... -
The Intended by David Dabydeen 9781845230135
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95The young narrator of "The Intended" is twelve when he leaves his village in rural Guyana to come to England. There, he is abandoned into social care, but with great determination and self-discipline... -
European Writers in Exile by Robert C. Hauhart 9781498560238
Booksplease Price: $145.03European Writers in Exile collects a series of original essays that address the writers' universal existential dilemma, when viewed through the lens of exile: who am I, where am I from, and what do I... -
Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice by Sarah Phillips Casteel 9780813943299
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $42.58Caribbean Jewish Crossings is the first essay collection to consider the Caribbean's relationship to Jewishness through a literary lens. Although Caribbean novelists and poets regularly incorporate... -
Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds by Stef Craps 9780230230071
Booksplease Price: $60.29Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories... -
Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice by Sarah Phillips Casteel 9780813943282
RRP: $94.17Booksplease Price: $77.05Caribbean Jewish Crossings is the first essay collection to consider the Caribbean's relationship to Jewishness through a literary lens. Although Caribbean novelists and poets regularly incorporate... -
Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds by Stef Craps 9781137543196
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.57Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories... -
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary...