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The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination by Professor Maxine Lavon Montgomery 9781350248557
Booksplease Price: £31.86Exploring 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: £30.95Booksplease Price: £27.26Haiti'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... -
Market Aesthetics: The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction by Elena Machado Saez 9780813937045
Booksplease Price: £74.30In Market Aesthetics, Elena Machado Saez explores the popularity of Caribbean diasporic writing within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and pan-ethnic framework. She contests established readings... -
Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism by Valerie Kaussen 9780739116371
Booksplease Price: £51.70Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism interprets Haitian literature in a transnational context of anti-colonial_and anti-globalization_politics. Positing a... -
The Post-Apocalyptic Black Female Imagination by Professor Maxine Lavon Montgomery 9781350124509
Booksplease Price: £102.21Exploring post-apocalypticism in the Black literary and cultural tradition, Post-Apocalypticism and the Black Female Imagination extends the scholarly conversation on Afro-futurist canon formation... -
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women Sandra Guzman 9780063052598
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79"Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America sheds a brilliant light on Latine and Caribbean women writers across time, space, languages, and genres."-World Literature Today?Spanning time,... -
Tropical Apocalypse: Haiti and the Caribbean End Times by Martin Munro 9780813938202
Booksplease Price: £35.22In Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro engages with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, not only providing important historical contextualization for a general... -
Daughter: A Novel by Asha Bandele 9780743417983
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.87This beautifully and sparely written tale explores the fragile complexity of the mother- daughter bond and the heart wrenching legacy of silence between generations. Aya is a black college girl from... -
Duvalier's Ghosts: Race, Diaspora, and U.S. Imperialism in Haitian Literatures by Jana Evans Braziel 9780813054674
Booksplease Price: £24.14From a position of urgent political engagement, this provocative book offers novel and compelling interpretations of several well-known Haitian-born authors, particularly regarding U.S. intervention... -
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers by Rosemarie Robotham 9780465070633
Booksplease Price: £16.98The many facets of black family life have not always been fully visible in American literature. Black families have often been portrayed as chaotic, fractured, and emotionally devastated, and... -
Writing on the Fault Line: Haitian Literature and the Earthquake of 2010 by Martin Munro
Booksplease Price: £33.33What are the effects of a catastrophic earthquake on a society, its culture and politics? Which of these effects are temporary, and which endure? Are the various effects immediately discernible, or... -
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.13A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy... -
Tropical Apocalypse: Haiti and the Caribbean End Times by Martin Munro 9780813938196
Booksplease Price: £79.81In Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro engages with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, not only providing important historical contextualization for a general... -
Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature by Nick Nesbitt 9780813921518
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In Voicing Memory Nick Nesbilt argues that the aesthetic practices of twentieth-century French Caribbean writers reconstruct a historical awareness that had been lost amid the repressive violence of... -
Transnational Africana Women’s Fictions by Cheryl Sterling 9781032011325
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book explores the works of women writers and filmmakers across the African and African Diaspora world, reflecting on how the transnational sphere can serve to highlight voices that were at the... -
New York Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Writers have always been uniquely inspired by New York City, and the classic stories collected here provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the metropolis in all its grittiness and glamour. Acclaimed... -
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £26.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062912985Author Margaret BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 1056Imprint -
Body, Nation, and Narrative in the Americas by K. Pitt 9781349290635
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book contextualizes 21st century representations of disappearance, torture, and detention within a historical framework of inter-American narratives. Examining a range of sources, Pitt finds a... -
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker by Jelani Cobb
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £21.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063017597Author Jelani CobbFormat HardbackPage Count 848Imprint -
Literary Feminist Ecologies of American and Caribbean Expansionism: Errand into the Wilderness by Christine M. Battista 9781032230139
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V. Spanos articulates as the "errand into the wilderness": the ethic of... -
From Shadow to Presence: Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature by Jelena Sesnic 9789042022171
Booksplease Price: £95.69This volume departs from a more static concept of identity politics to engage the varied and entangled processes of ethnic/racial, national, and gender identifications in a range of contemporary US... -
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz 9781439922217
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Characters with disabilities are often marginalized in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai,... -
New Crossings: Caribbean Migration Narratives by Anthea Morrison 9789766407353
Booksplease Price: £32.86This interdisciplinary study focuses on recent migrant literature by five outstanding authors from the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean: Maryse Conde, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz,... -
Poetry of Haitian Independence by Doris Y. Kadish 9780300195590
Booksplease Price: £60.68At the turn of the nineteenth century, Haiti became the first and only modern country born from a slave revolt. During the first decades of Haitian independence, a wealth of original poetry was... -
Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad by Jennifer Sparrow 9781580051392
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Stories from Blue Latitudes gathers the major and emerging women fiction writers from the Caribbean, including Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Merle Collins, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Paule... -
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women by Sandra Guzman 9780063052574
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.00Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world—from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist... -
Connecting Histories: Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past by Bonnie Thomas 9781496810557
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14The 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... -
Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women by Myriam J. A. Chancy 9780813523408
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.60Raped and colonized, coerced and silenced--this has been the position of Haitian women within their own society, as well as how they have been seen by foreign occupiers. Romanticized symbols of... -
Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistance in Black Women's Writings by Donna Aza Weir-Soley 9780813054780
Booksplease Price: £23.03Western European mythology and history tend to view spirituality and sexuality as opposite extremes. But sex can be more than a function of the body and religion more than a function of the mind, as... -
Wedding Stories Diana Secker Tesdell 9781841596235
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month of May," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Bridal Party," Joy Williams's... -
Reconfigurations of the Bildungsroman: Taking Refuge from Violence in Kincaid, Danticat, hooks, and Morrison by Goncalo Cholant 9783110752564
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £53.55The present work deals with the representation of trauma and violence in coming-of-age stories written by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women authors in the United States. The kinds of violence... -
The Best Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind 9780393330250
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.60Anyone still asking, "What is creative nonfiction?" will find the answer in this collection of artfully crafted, true stories. Selected by Lee Gutkind, the "godfather behind creative nonfiction," and... -
The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean by Giselle Liza Anatol 9780813565736
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.42The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the... -
Michael Richards: Are You Down? Michael Richards 9781954939042
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £29.80The first monograph dedicated to the legacy of an under-recognized artist who passed on September 11, 2001 American artist Michael Richards (1963-2001) was born in Brooklyn and raised in Kingston,... -
Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse by April Shemak 9780823233557
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £40.28Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and... -
The Pen and the Pan: Food, Fiction and Homegrown Caribbean Feminism(s) by Robyn Cope 9789766408602
Booksplease Price: £41.12The Pen and the Pan: Food, Fiction and Homegrown Caribbean Feminism(s) is a comparative study of food imagery in contemporary fiction by Guadeloupeans Maryse Condé and Gisèle Pineau, Haitian Edwidge... -
Black Female Sexualities by Melissa V. Harris-Perry 9780813571744
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £89.42Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to... -
To Tell a Black Story of Miami by Tatiana D. McInnis 9780813069579
Booksplease Price: £71.76How portrayals of anti-Blackness in literature and film challenge myths about South Florida history and culture. In this book, Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami... -
The Spaces of Violence by James Giles
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In The Spaces of Violence, James R. Giles examines ten contemporary American novels for the unique ways in which they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell... -
In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st-Century Haitian Art by Donald J. Cosentino
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.01Focusing on artistic evocations of the irrepressible Gedes - an increasingly dominant family of trickster dieties - In Extremis examines the striking disjunction between social collapse and artistic...