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The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature by Emily Apter 9780691049977
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The... -
The Event of Postcolonial Shame by Timothy Bewes 9780691141664
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the... -
Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia Ethan Madarieta 9798899480102
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £76.70Presenting a new framework for understanding indigeneity and Indigenous peoples' demands for territorial restitution Asserting that the work of critical theory today must attend to an epistemic... -
The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics by Idelber Avelar 9781403967411
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers. Surveying such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Frantz... -
Sex and Secularism by Joan Wallach Scott
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05How gender inequality is built into the conception of modern secular nation-statesJoan Wallach Scott's acclaimed writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and... -
Race Is about Politics: Lessons from History by Jean-Frederic Schaub 9780691171616
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73How the history of racism without visible differences between people challenges our understanding of the history of racial thinkingRacial divisions have returned to the forefront of politics in the... -
Sex and Secularism by Joan Wallach Scott 9780691160641
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women Joan Wallach Scott's acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and... -
Wen xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume III: Rhapsodies on Natural Phenomena, Birds and Animals, Aspirations and Feelings, Sorrowful Laments, Literature, Music, and Passions by David R. Knechtges 9780691606583
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.98The Wen xuan, compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literature arranged by genre. It contains a total of 761 pieces of prose and verse by 130 writers from the... -
Democratic Political Tragedy in the Postcolony: The Tragedy of Postcoloniality in Michael Manley's Jamaica and Nelson Mandela's South Africa by Greg A. Graham 9780367372767
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora and beyond, Democratic Tragedy in the Postcolony... -
Poetics of Relation by Betsy Wing 9780472066292
Booksplease Price: £21.58Edouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers... -
Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture by Aamir R. Mufti 9780691057323
Booksplease Price: £30.30Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times,... -
Rewriting Exodus: American Futures from Du Bois to Obama Anna Hartnell 9780745329550
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30Exodus, as a powerful narrative of liberation, has been a central imaginative touchstone in the black American struggle against US racism. This book traces the concept in a number of pivotal black... -
Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War by Andrew N. Rubin 9780691154152
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural... -
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... -
Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality by David Scott
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.25How can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic... -
Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue by Nigel C. Gibson 9781538172490
Booksplease Price: £27.89Over sixty years after his death, the social philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) remains a towering intellectual figure. Born in Martinique and trained as a psychiatrist in France,... -
Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble by J. Lorand Matory
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion. This book contests both the... -
City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut by Robyn Creswell 9780691182186
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during... -
The Tar Baby: A Global History by Bryan Wagner 9780691196916
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktalePerhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and... -
City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut Robyn Creswell 9780691264769
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.30How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during... -
Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature by J. Dillon Brown 9781496813046
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of emigre novelists based in postwar London,... -
Fighting over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution by Rafael Rojas 9780691169514
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32New York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War--and the Cuban Revolution. Fighting over Fidel... -
Logics of Separation: Exile and Transcendence in Aesthetic Modernity by Shamoon Zamir 9783039110087
RRP: £49.30Booksplease Price: £44.76This book is made up of a set of innovative close readings and meditations on the significance of the modes and logics of separation in the thinking of aesthetic modernity. Separation is defined in... -
Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East by Lila Abu-Lughod
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil... -
Self-Determination and History in the Third World by David C. Gordon 9780691620510
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In their struggle for self-determination the newly independent countries of the Third World are reestablishing links with their precolonial pasts and determining their present identities and future... -
Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil 1945-1988 by Michael George Hanchard
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35From recent data on disparities between Brazilian whites and non-whites in areas of health, education, and welfare, it is clear that vast racial inequalities do exist in Brazil, contrary to earlier... -
Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature by J. Dillon Brown 9781628464757
Booksplease Price: £99.43This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of emigre novelists based in postwar London,... -
Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987 by Goran Hugo Olsson 9781608465323
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25An unblinking portrait of the anti-colonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than 150 arresting colour and black-and-white photographs from Goran Hugo Olsson's award-winning... -
Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams 9780571376414
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'The first African novel in English to draw international attention.' New York Times'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary... -
The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin by Caryl Emerson 9780691050492
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Among Western critics, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) needs no introduction. His name has been invoked in literary and cultural studies across the ideological spectrum, from old-fashioned humanist to... -
Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics by Jennet Kirkpatrick
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Uncivil Disobedience examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of democratic ideals in America. Jennet Kirkpatrick explores how crowds, rallying behind the principle of... -
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg 9780691147468
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Derided 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... -
White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide by Dylan Rodríguez
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £79.80Winner, The Frantz Fanon Award for an Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and... -
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures by L. H. Stallings 9780252039591
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44Funk. It is multisensory and multidimensional philosophy used in conjunction with the erotic, eroticism, and black erotica. It is the affect that shapes film, performance, sound, food, technology,... -
White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide by Dylan Rodríguez 9780823289394
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Winner, The Frantz Fanon Award for an Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and... -
Gender and Colonialism: A Psychological Analysis of Oppression and Liberation by Geraldine Moane 9780333994290
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.86Drawing on the writings of diverse authors, including Jean Baker Miller, Bell Hooks, Mary Daly, Frantz Fanon, Paulo Freire and Ignacio Martin-Baro, as well as on women's experiences, this book aims... -
Gender and Colonialism: A Psychological Analysis of Oppression and Liberation by Geraldine Moane 9780333699669
Booksplease Price: £90.56Drawing on the writings of diverse authors, including Jean Baker Miller, Bell Hooks, Mary Daly, Frantz Fanon, Paulo Freire and Ignacio Martin-Baro, as well as on women's experiences, this book aims... -
Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala: Caribbean, Meso, and South American Contributions and Challenges by Yuderkys Espinosa Minoso 9781538153116
Booksplease Price: £112.43This is a collection of ten chapters and an introduction that develop key arguments in decolonial feminism, particularly, the coloniality of gender, the critique of white and Eurocentric feminisms,... -
Urban Revolutions: Notes Towards a Systematic Investigation by Stefan Kipfer 9781642599954
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In Urban Revolutions, Stefan Kipfer shows how these struggles force us to... -
Latin America in Global International Relations by Amitav Acharya
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Using decades of their own insight into teaching undergraduate International Relations (IR) courses, leading experts offer an introduction to IR thinking throughout history in Latin America,...