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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature by Ato Quayson
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £34.10This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial... -
ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today by Ernest N. Emenyonu
Booksplease Price: £25.91Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism. In 1965, Chinua Achebe, in his classic essay "The Novelist as... -
Global Crusoe: Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Theory and Transnational Aesthetics by Ann Marie Fallon
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Global Crusoe travels across the twentieth-century globe, from a Native American reservation to a Botswanan village, to explore the huge variety of contemporary incarnations of Daniel Defoe's... -
The Politics of Emotional Shockwaves by Ana Falcato 9783030560201
Booksplease Price: £100.10This interdisciplinary volume brings together specialists from different backgrounds to deliver expert views on the relationship between morality and emotion, putting a special emphasis on issues... -
Cultured Violence: Narrative, Social Suffering, and Engendering Human Rights in Contemporary South Africa by Rosemary Jolly 9781846312137
Booksplease Price: £119.73Cultured Violence explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent conflict. The book... -
Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World: Filiations Past and Future by Rajeshwari S. Vallury 9781498570381
Booksplease Price: £86.43Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World: Filiations Past and Future offers a critical reflection on some of the leading figures of twentieth-century French and Francophone... -
The Assistant by Robert Walser 9780811215909
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.15Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he... -
Foe by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. In an act of... -
Red Dust Gillian Slovo 9781860499159
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02There was probably only one person who could make Sarah Barcant, successful prosecutor, leave New York and return home to Smitsrivier, the small town in South Africa she left years before. Ben. Her... -
Foe by J. M. Coetzee 9780241973691
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. Published as a... -
Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism by Gary Steiner 9780231153423
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £97.75In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value... -
Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism by Gary Steiner 9780231153430
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value... -
Mr Geography Tim Parks 9781787304536
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.30Daniel Burrow once began a beautiful walk from Konstanz to Como with Julia, mercurial professor of literature, mother to two of his pupils, married, and the love of his life.After years of their... -
On Literary Attachment in South Africa: Tough Love by Michael Chapman 9781032064475
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book reflects on the "literary" in literature. Less ideologically construed, more affirmative of literary attachment, the study adopts a style of intimacy - its "tough love" - in a correlation... -
The Way Of The Women by Marlene van Niekerk 9780349120799
Booksplease Price: £26.61How can you speak when speech has been taken away? When the only person listening refuses to understand? Milla, trapped in silence by a deadly paralysing illness, confined to her bed, struggles to... -
The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by J. M. Coetzee 9780099598220
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a longstanding interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. J. M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz consider... -
The Master of Petersburg: A Novel by J. M. Coetzee 9780140238105
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.25J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, lately a... -
Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israelis and Palestinians by Heribert Adam 9781592133956
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £57.24The ongoing violence, despair and paralysis among Israelis and Palestinians resemble the gloomy period in South Africa during the late 1980s. Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley show that these... -
The Trouble with Literature by Victoria Kahn 9780198808749
Booksplease Price: £28.91This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017, argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But... -
Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature: Texts, Territories, Globalizations Baidik Bhattacharya 9780367734282
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book explores the debates surrounding two dynamic fields - postcolonial studies and world literature. Contrary to many dominant narratives in critical theory, it asserts that as an analytical... -
In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa: by Graham Pechey Derek Attridge 9781835537060
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.16The distinguished South African scholar and critic Graham Pechey was one of the leading voices in the debates about literature's role in the apartheid state, and he continued to reflect influentially... -
A Whistling of Birds by Isobel Dixon 9781913437725
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Elizabeth Bishop's hawkweed, John Berryman's hummingbirds, Ted Hughes's burnt fox - the birds, beasts and flowers of Isobel Dixon's new collection are at times kin to D.H. Lawrence, whose essay... -
How Novels Work by John Mullan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic... -
Nemesis by Philip Roth 9780099542261
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed... -
Dreams (1890) by Olive Schreiner 9781554815647
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £21.13Dreams is a work that defies conventional categorization; however, one might best capture its unique formal structure by construing it as a series of prose poems or narrative paintings, a starkly... -
Literary Infinities: Number and Narrative in Modern Fiction by Baylee Brits
Booksplease Price: £36.82Today, we have forgotten that mathematics was once aligned with the arts, rather than with the sciences. Literary Infinities analyses the connection between the late 19th-century revolution in the... -
Reading the Novel in English 1950 - 2000 by Brian W. Shaffer 9781405101134
RRP: £93.95Booksplease Price: £82.91Reading the Novel in English 1950-2000; "This is an excellent introductory study. The selection of texts is intriguing. The volume is well-informed by criticism of the field and Shaffer's close... -
Reading the Novel in English 1950 - 2000 Brian W. Shaffer (Rhodes College) 9781405101141
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £31.16Reading the Novel in English 1950-2000; "This is an excellent introductory study. The selection of texts is intriguing. The volume is well-informed by criticism of the field and Shaffer's close... -
The Philosophy and Psychology of Delusions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives by Ana Falcato 9781032265926
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14This book presents new philosophical work on delusions and their impact on everyday human behavior. It explores a cluster of related topics at the intersection of philosophy of mind and psychiatry,... -
Aftermath: The Fall and the Rise After the Event by Robert Kusek
Booksplease Price: £61.17What happens in the wake of the event? Is the event's aftermath always characterised by the experience of disorder, fragmentation, and impermanence? Or, alternatively, can aftermath be seen as a new... -
The Parade by Dave Eggers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.05From the bestselling author of The Circle and The Monk of Mokha comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace.'Tightly written, carefully designed to wrong-foot... -
John by Niall Williams 9780747596783
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78What invisible drama plays, what passes to and fro in the columns of air above them, none knows, but the disciples think: perhaps the time is arrived at last. Aged, blind and perilously frail, John... -
Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics by Professor or Dr. Jens Elze 9781501385483
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £94.26Realism seems to be everywhere, both as a trending critical term and as a revitalized aesthetic practice. This volume brings together for the first time three aspects that are pertinent for a proper... -
The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including... -
Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future by Zahi Zalloua 9781350151086
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £43.52Posthumanism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term. Firstly, it registers a shift beginning in the late 1960s and epitomized by Foucault's "the death of Man". Secondly, it refers to the... -
Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now? by Kari Weil 9780231148092
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Kari Weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Examining real and imagined confrontations between human... -
Fanon, Psychoanalysis and Critical Decolonial Psychology: The Mind of Apartheid Derek Hook 9781032308012
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This groundbreaking book examines the psychological dimension of decolonial thought in reference to foundational texts. Previously published as A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial, this new... -
Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura 9781846689246
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Set on a struggling farm in a fiercely beautiful colonial country teetering on the brink of civil war, this second novel by one of international literature's rising young stars weaves a brilliant... -
Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire by Elleke Boehmer
RRP: £22.49Booksplease Price: £20.82Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire, as... -
Mouthful of Birds: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, 2019 by Samanta Schweblin 9781786076694
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.42A SPELLBINDINGLY CREEPY COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, FROM AN ARGENTINIAN LITERARY STAR 'The Grimm brothers and Franz Kafka pay a visit to Argentina in Samanta Schweblin's darkly humorous...