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Conversations with Kiese Laymon by Constance Bailey 9781496859044
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In over a dozen interviews, Conversations with Kiese Laymon provides an in-depth look at author Kiese Laymon as an educator, creative writer, activist, family member, and Mississippian. Interviews... -
Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction by David Wylot 9781032239521
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American... -
The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol 9780393349962
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.11Moving from modern-day Jerusalem to McCarthy-era Los Angeles to communist Prague and back again, The UnAmericans is a stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history. Molly... -
American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World by Ann J. Abadie 9781496845733
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World is a major contemporary survey of landscapes in art and literature of the United States, especially the American South... -
Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature by Eden Wales Freedman 9781496827333
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Theorists emphasize the necessity of writing about - or witnessing - trauma in order to overcome it. To this critical conversation, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Race, Gender, and... -
Mapping Black Women's Geographies Kimberly Blockett 9781032806099
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Spanning three centuries, this book demonstrates a variety of archival practices to tell more expansive stories about Black women. It examines the life writing, records, and ephemera of Black women... -
Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm Toibin, from the introduction'Dark and beautiful and brilliant' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Death in Spring is a dark and... -
Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers: New Voices, New Perspectives by Jean W. Cash 9781496833334
Booksplease Price: £99.43Contributions by Destiny O. Birdsong, Jean W. Cash, Kevin Catalano, Amanda Dean Freeman, David Gates, Richard Gaughran, Rebecca Godwin, Joan Wylie Hall, Dixon Hearne, Phillip Howerton, Emily D... -
Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture by Stefanie K. Dunning 9781496832931
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture, author Stefanie K. Dunning considers both popular and literary texts that range from Beyonce's Lemonade to Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the... -
The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature Alexander Menrisky 9781041023883
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature offers an overview of the different ways diverse writers in the United States have represented the nonhuman world and human... -
Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing Jina B. Kim 9781478028482
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In Care at the End of the World, Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US... -
Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing Jina B. Kim 9781478031710
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In Care at the End of the World, Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US... -
Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence by Annette Trefzer 9781496851086
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £70.50Contributions by Anita DeRouen, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, W. Ralph Eubanks, Sarah Ford, Bernard Joy, John Wharton Lowe, Anne MacMaster, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand,... -
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £23.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062912985Author Margaret BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 1056Imprint -
The Best American Essays 2021 by Robert Atwan 9780358381754
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358381754Author Robert AtwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint < -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 by Sid Holt
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 presents outstanding journalism and commentary that reckon with urgent topics, including COVID-19 and entrenched racial inequality. In "The Plague Year,"... -
Apocalyptic Territories: Setting and Revelation in Contemporary American Fiction by Anna Hellen 9781032238524
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Research on the relationship between the apocalyptic tradition and the literary imagination has typically espoused a temporal approach which in one way or another revolves around the order of events... -
Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel Elisha Jane Cohn 9781503642379
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In this creaturely theory of the novel, Elisha Cohn rethinks the status of animals in recent global fiction, arguing that literary representation of animals should matter to any reader invested in... -
Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature by Jean W. Cash 9781496802330
Booksplease Price: £99.43A critical companion to the striking variety of contemporary southern literature. Contributions by Barbara Bennett, Thomas AErvold Bjerre, Erik Bledsoe, Linda Byrd Cook, Thomas E. Dasher, Robert... -
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair 9780008491284
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99‘Dazzling. Potent. Vital’ TARA WESTOVER ‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ MARLON JAMES ‘I adored this book … Unforgettable, heartbreaking and heartwarming’ ELIF SHAFAK There was more... -
Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel Elisha Jane Cohn 9781503641761
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90In this creaturely theory of the novel, Elisha Cohn rethinks the status of animals in recent global fiction, arguing that literary representation of animals should matter to any reader invested in... -
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £27.15Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough PrizeA prizewinning poet argues that Blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.Throughout US history, Black people have been... -
The Wicked Cometh: The addictive historical mystery Laura Carlin 9781473661394
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'We have no need to protect ourselves from the bad sort because WE are the bad sort . . .' 'Beguiling' StylistThe year is 1831. Down murky alleyways, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place... -
Re-Envisioning the Freudian Mother in Southern Literature Jill Goad 9781666969986
Booksplease Price: £80.73Through the lens of a feminist psychoanalytic framework, Re-Envisioning the Freudian Mother in Southern Literature re-evaluates the mother-child dynamic as one far more complicated than what is... -
On Fiction and Being a Good Animal David P. Rando 9781399538060
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Instead of making readers into better people, what if fiction could help us to become better animals? On Fiction and Being a Good Animal argues that we should abandon the persistent humanist idea... -
The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Heidi Pitlor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.73A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Andrew Sean Greer, "an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of... -
The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'This novel is written with a breathtaking, exhilarating assurance and wit. Terrific' The Times 'A wrenchingly beautiful debut by a writer to be reckoned with' Jesmyn WardMitchell S. Jackson grew up... -
The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson 9780349701394
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'This novel is written with a breathtaking, exhilarating assurance and wit. Terrific' The Times 'A wrenchingly beautiful debut by a writer to be reckoned with' Jesmyn WardMitchell S. Jackson grew up... -
Reclaiming Time: The Transformative Politics of Feminist Temporalities by Tanya Ann Kennedy 9781438495460
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.The post-2016 election era in the United States is commonly presumed to be an era... -
Reclaiming Time: The Transformative Politics of Feminist Temporalities by Tanya Ann Kennedy 9781438495453
Booksplease Price: £26.07Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.The post-2016 election era in the United States is commonly presumed to be an era... -
Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton 9780008532888
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2023 'A hugely impressive debut' SARAH WATERS '[A]... -
How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory Jennifer C. Nash 9781478030461
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In How We Write Now Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to stay close to the field's central object and preoccupation: loss. She... -
Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care by Amelia DeFalco 9780192886125
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £67.12Over the past decade cultural theory has seen a number of 'turns' - the materialist turn, the animal turn, the affective turn - that address the human as an affective, embodied, and ultimately... -
Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature by Jean W. Cash 9781496810526
Booksplease Price: £31.89Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories... -
Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence by Annette Trefzer 9781496851093
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Contributions by Anita DeRouen, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, W. Ralph Eubanks, Sarah Ford, Bernard Joy, John Wharton Lowe, Anne MacMaster, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand,... -
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair 9780008491321
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunning book' BERNARDINE EVARISTO ... -
Stunning Sentences: A Creative Writing Journal with 80 Prompts from Beloved Authors to Improve Your Style Nina Schuyler 9798897400027
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84Sentences are alive. Done well, they can help us see the world anew.To create such sentences you need fresh, varied rhythms and imagery. In this creative writing journal, Nina Schuyler, award-winning... -
Adaptation in Young Adult Novels: Critically Engaging Past and Present by Dr. Dana E. Lawrence 9781501371950
Booksplease Price: £33.49Adaptation in Young Adult Novels argues that adapting classic and canonical literature and historical places engages young adult readers with their cultural past and encourages them to see how that... -
Epic Events: Classics and the Politics of Time in the United States since 9/11 Sasha-Mae Eccleston 9780300263411
Booksplease Price: £30.43An analysis of ancient Greek and Roman works alongside contemporary literature, exploring how these classics shape our understanding of the politics of time in America Ancient Greek and Roman... -
The Best American Short Stories 2023 by Min Jin Lee 9780063275904
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.10A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor."Without stories, we cannot live well," shares guest editor Min Jin...