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Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon by Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €24.86Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's literary authority should eclipse her... -
Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities: A Transdisciplinary Approach by Howard Ball
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.21This book provides both an overview of the core dilemma in America--racism and the deadly impact it has had on American society--and an account of the ways in which the book's contributors have... -
Eye Dreaming: Photographs by Anthony Barboza Anthony Barboza 9781606067833
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €36.58This richly illustrated book is the first monograph to explore the prolific career of the celebrated photographer Anthony Barboza. Anthony Barboza (b. 1944) is a celebrated artist and writer who has... -
Recitatif by Toni Morrison 9781529983586
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.53A stunning, timeless story about race, friendship, what keeps us apart and what drives us apart, from the one and only Toni Morrison, with an introduction by Zadie Smith.Twyla and Roberta met in a... -
The Blacker the Berry Wallace Thurman 9781784877576
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.'Why not? She's just as a good as... -
Phases: Poems by Tramaine Suubi 9780063344914
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063344914Author Tramaine SuubiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women by Mia E. Bay 9781469620916
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.62Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black... -
The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walker)For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled... -
Black Girl Rising by Brynne Barnes 9781452164878
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.58You are a thousand curls unfurling in your hair. You are a thousand fists standing proudly in air. You are the song of swallows, lifting sun as they sing - breaking light with their beaks, ... -
Ancestral House: The Black Short Story In The Americas And Europe by Charles Rowell 9780367159351
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €51.22An anthology of 70 short stories by writers of African descent. The authors are from Europe and the Americas (about half of them from the United States), and they include Alice Walker, Hal Bennett... -
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T Dungy
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €22.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982195304Author Camille T DungyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint -
The Mountain Lion (Faber Editions): 'I love this novel' Patricia Lockwood by Jean Stafford 9780571368174
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Introduced by Hilton Als, in 'one of the best novels about adolescence in American literature' (New York Times) two siblings come of age in a mountainous wilderness ...'One of the strangest and... -
Ancient and Modern Religion and Politics: Negotiating Transitive Spaces and Hybrid Identities by J. Leblanc 9780230340848
Booksplease Price: €55.07This book brings a variety of voices into conversation about the issues of identity, community, tension and violence, and peace in the West: from Sophocles to Alice Walker, from Lincoln to Martin... -
The Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'One woman's tragic tale, beautifully told' Independent on Sunday FROM KEI MILLER, WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTIONOnce upon a time in Jamaica a young woman went somewhere that no one... -
Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism by Lisa Rowe Fraustino 9781496818430
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.62Contributions by: Robin Calland, Lauren Causey, Karen Coats, Sara K. Day, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore, Anna Katrina Gutierrez, Adrienne Kertzer, Kouen Kim, Alexandra Kotanko, Jennifer... -
Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism by Lisa Rowe Fraustino 9781496806994
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €84.66Living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or merrily adequate, the figure of the mother bears enormous freight across a child's emotional and intellectual life. Given the vital role... -
Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature: From Faulkner and Morrison to Walker and Silko by L. Smith 9781349372904
Booksplease Price: €55.07The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko, place this cross-cultural contact in nature, not only... -
The Maid's Room: 'A modern-day The Help' - Emerald Street Fiona Mitchell 9781473659599
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07'A modern-day The Help' - Emerald Street'It's a book to read and then read again.' The Book Bag'I loved The Maid's Room with its exquisite writing, married with a shocking and powerful story line... -
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology by Barbara Smith 9781978838994
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €22.35Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in... -
Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic by Madhu Dubey
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.05""A clear and uncluttered writer, Dubey helps us understand these ideological and literary complexities."" -- Virginia Quarterly Review.."". an important contribution to the study of African-American... -
Monkey Grip by Helen Garner 9781399606783
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'Seductive as hell. Brilliant, unusual, breathtaking' Lauren Groff'There are very few writers that I admire more than Helen Garner' David Nicholls'A... -
The Black Woman by Toni Cade Bambara 9780743476973
Booksplease Price: €17.53A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers When it was first published in 1970, The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing... -
Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature: From Faulkner and Morrison to Walker and Silko by Lindsey Claire Smith 9780230605411
Booksplease Price: €55.07The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Leslie Marmon Silko, place this cross-cultural contact in nature, not only... -
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology by Barbara Smith 9781978839007
RRP: €60.69Booksplease Price: €53.45Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in... -
Faith Stories: Short Fiction on the Varieties and Vagaries of Faith by C.Michael Curtis 9780618378241
Booksplease Price: €16.36Reflecting a wide range of religious traditions and beliefs--including Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, and more--this remarkable anthology explores issues of faith and religious... -
Afro-American Literature in Thetwentieth-Century by Michael G. Cooke 9780300036244
Booksplease Price: €34.01Michael Cooke examines the essential structure of Afro-American literature as it has developed in the twentieth-century, with special attention to works by Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, Richard... -
Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction: American Voices and American Identities by M. Hurst 9781349292899
Booksplease Price: €55.07Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice... -
Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction: American Voices and American Identities by M. Hurst 9780230110458
Booksplease Price: €55.62Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice... -
![Small Great Things: The bestselling novel you won't want to miss by Jodi Picoult 9781444788006 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9722543/10739207/9781444788006__48841.1781388397.jpg?c=1 "Small Great Things: The bestselling novel you won't want to miss by Jodi Picoult 9781444788006 [USED COPY]")
Small Great Things: The bestselling novel you won't want to miss by Jodi Picoult 9781444788006 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €2.94'The best books make you see differently. This is one of them. The eye-opening new novel from Jodi Picoult with the biggest of themes: birth, death, and responsibility.''To Kill a Mockingbird for the... -
Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency by Evelyn Nakano Glenn
RRP: €78.53Booksplease Price: €72.52This volume presents a variety of unique perspectives on mothering as a socially constructed relationship, assessing many of the political, legal and cultural debates surrounding the issue.About the... -
The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives by Molly Hite
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74According to Molly Hite, a number of influential contemporary women novelists-notably Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Alice Walker, and Margaret Atwood-attempt innovations in narrative form that are more... -
Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master by Amy Schmidt 9781899579730
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.51'An inspiring and beautiful book about one of our most beloved elders, a modern Buddhist saint' - Jack Kornfield Read the life story and spiritual teachings of Dipa Ma, a major figure in contemporary... -
Tell Me A Riddle And Yonnondio by Tillie Olsen 9781844085637
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.79ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S MOST GIFTED AMERICAN WRITERS 'Tillie Olsen's is a unique voice. Few writers have gained such . . . reverence' MARGARET ATWOOD'Almost unbearable in its harsh poetry and... -
The Same Earth by Kei Miller
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54From the WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2014, a 'humorous, bittersweet fiction, combin[ing] the fantastical realism of Marquez with the domestic comedy of Andrea Levy' INDEPENDENTIt... -
This Is How I Save My Life: From California to India, a True Story of Finding Everything When You Are Willing to Try Anything by Amy B Scher
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.84"A heartwarming and inspiring story that will change the way you look at life." -Vikas Swarup, New York Times bestselling author of Slumdog Millionaire "An Eat Pray Love-like memoir." -Pam Grout, #1... -
Zora Neale Hurston by Cheryl R Hopson 9781789147957
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.64This book explores the creativity and life of Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the most published African American woman writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Her life spanned a period of... -
One Day I’ll Remember This: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner 9781399606745
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.31'I revere Helen Garner's writing, and it's in her diaries that she's at her acute, rigorous, pitch-perfect best' Nigella Lawson'I come back again and again to Garner's diaries and always find... -
Tenderheaded: A Comb-bending Collection of Hair Stories by Juliette Harris 9780671047566
Booksplease Price: €19.60When does a few ounces of hair come to feel like the weight of the world? When an employer fires a black woman for wearing a cultural hairstyle that is "unprofessional", and she has to go to court to... -
Wench: The word-of-mouth hit that became a New York Times bestseller Dolen Perkins-Valdez 9781399620321
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54THE WORD-OF-MOUTH HIT THAT BECAME A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'SHATTERING' SIGRID NUNEZ'BEAUTIFUL' USA TODAY'UNFORGETTABLE' TAYARI JONESIn 1850s Ohio, a free territory before the Civil War, Tawawa... -
Balm: From the New York Times bestselling author of Take My Hand Dolen Perkins-Valdez 9781399620352
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54HOPE CAN SET YOU FREE . . .'GORGEOUS' WASHINGTON POST'MOVING' USA TODAY'RIVETING' VALERIE MARTINThe Civil War has ended, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp have each come to Chicago in search of a new life...