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Art and Activism: Jazz Artists and Writers in the Civil Rights Vanguard Jack Marchbanks 9780821426876
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Explore how jazz legends and literary icons united art and activism, shaping the civil rights movement and transforming American culture during the pivotal period between 1955 and 1965.Art and... -
Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity by Ross Posnock 9780691138435
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest... -
Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation by Ahmed Ali 9780691074993
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.05This bilingual edition of the Qur'an, the Holy Book of Islam, was first published in the United States in 1988. Ahmed Ali, the distinguished Pakistani novelist, poet, critic, and diplomat, presents... -
Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures by Grant Farred
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89As Africana Studies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary throughout the United States, this invigor ating collection presents possibilities for the future of the discipline's theoretical paths. The... -
What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) by Naomi Kanakia 9780691251929
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.36A popular novelist and literary blogger answers those who claim the classics are too difficult, too problematic, and too white-and explains what we gain by reading themWhen she was in her early... -
Selected Writings, Volume 2: Curating the Postcolonial Condition Okwui Enwezor 9781478031567
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.12Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding... -
Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures by Grant Farred 9781439923078
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21As Africana Studies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary throughout the United States, this invigor ating collection presents possibilities for the future of the discipline's theoretical paths. The... -
Selected Writings, Volume 2: Curating the Postcolonial Condition Okwui Enwezor 9781478028345
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.32Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding... -
The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History Susan Scott Parrish 9780691182940
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi floodThe Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, drowning crops and displacing more than half... -
The Tar Baby: A Global History by Bryan Wagner 9780691172637
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktale Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His... -
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 by Mark Greif 9780691146393
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.60In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on... -
Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form by David J. Alworth 9780691164496
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites--supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums--that have been... -
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat 9780691140186
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,... -
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat 9780691278087
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the YearA moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards-now... -
American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice by Albert J. Raboteau 9780691164304
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social activism was motivated by a deeply felt compassion for... -
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg 9780691154336
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his... -
Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing by David Yaffe 9780691123578
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature,... -
F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature by William J. Maxwell 9780691130200
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.60Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was... -
The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction by Tessa Roynon
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.32This book is an invaluable survey of the allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph... -
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century by Sara Blair 9780691130873
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37The Harlem riot of 1935 not only signaled the end of the Harlem Renaissance; it made black America's cultural capital an icon for the challenges of American modernity. Luring photographers interested... -
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 by Lawrence P. Jackson 9780691141350
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.73"The Indignant Generation" is the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. The years... -
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert O'Meally 9780231189187
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.37Ralph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as "antagonistic cooperation." Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with and against one another to create art and... -
Burnin' Down the House: Home in African American Literature by Valerie Sweeney Prince 9780231134408
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £61.80Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century. While scholars have given considerable attention to the Great Migration and the role of the... -
American Fiction Since 1940 by Tony Hilfer
Booksplease Price: £46.79In this remarkable book, Tony Hilfer provides a major survey of the wealth of post-war American fiction. He analyses the major modes and genres of writing, from realist to postmodernist metafiction... -
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert O'Meally
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Winner, 2023 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book AwardFinalist, 2023 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History SocietyShortlisted,... -
The Romare Bearden Reader by Robert G. O'Meally 9781478000440
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69The Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights. The contributors, who include Toni Morrison,... -
The Reader in Modernist Fiction Brian Richardson 9781399528375
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.22Many major modernists – including Henry James, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov and Ralph Ellison... -
Gordon Parks Centennial: His Legacy at Wichita State University by Patricia McDonnell
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.33This book celebrates photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author Gordon Parks, drawing on photographs and archival material held at Wichita State University. Parks's legacy involves a delicate... -
Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales by Keith Cartwright
Booksplease Price: £35.46The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of... -
The Electoral Imagination: Literature, Legitimacy, and Other Rigged Systems by Kent Puckett
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.91What happens when we vote? What are we counting when we count ballots? Who decides what an election should look like and what it should mean? And why do so many people believe that some or all... -
Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo by Robert Chodat
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £41.82Ants, ghosts, cultures, thunderstorms, stock markets, robots, computers: this is just a partial list of the sentient things that have filled American literature over the last century. From modernism... -
The Jungle (The Norton Library) by Upton Sinclair
Booksplease Price: £13.13Part of the Norton Library series The Norton Library edition of The Jungle features the complete text of the first (1906) edition. An introduction by Kenneth W. Warren discusses the novel's... -
Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White by Sarah Gilbreath Ford 9780817318239
Booksplease Price: £36.53In Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White, Sarah Gilbreath Ford explores how both black and white southern writers such as Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston,... -
Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing by Michael Magee 9780817350840
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Emancipating Pragmatism is a radical rereading of Emerson that posits African-American culture, literature, and jazz as the very continuation and embodiment of pragmatic thought and democratic... -
The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature and Emotional Truth Nicholas Manning 9781399508001
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.76Is emotional truth a damaging literary and cultural ideal? The Artifice of Affect proposes that valuing affective authenticity risks creating a homogenized self, encouraged to comply only with... -
Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America by Jack Turner
Booksplease Price: £28.55The election of America's first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from the failure of... -
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) by Akira Mizuta Lippit
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47This book explores the "avisual" and its effect on the visual world. Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and "invisible men" are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. "Atomic Light (Shadow... -
Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers' Project by Sara Rutkowski 9781625347008
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64Established in 1935, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent around 6,500 unemployed historians, teachers, writers, and librarians out to document America's past and present in the midst of the Great... -
The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction by Tessa Roynon 9781474434041
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Explores the importance and complexity of classical allusiveness in the modern American novel Explores both the sheer extent and the ideologically-invested nature of classical allusiveness in the... -
Canaan Bound: The African-American Great Migration Novel by Lawrence R. Rodgers 9780252066054
Booksplease Price: £20.12The Great Migration--the exodus of more than six million blacks from their southern homes hoping for better lives in the North--is a defining event of post-emancipation...