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Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A woman's defiant fight to write.' ObserverBeing categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more the merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures... -
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12A bizarre mystery surrounding a family tragedy forms the centrepiece of this atmospheric story of a mixed-race girl's struggle for identity. Orphaned and alone, young Rachel is taken under the wing... -
Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Three women who almost had it all...Norah thinks she has made it when she qualifies as a lawyer in Paris; Fanta works her way into a prestigious teaching job in her home city; Khady runs a cafe with... -
From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison by Trudier Harris 9780817361518
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new... -
Whiteness and Trauma: The Mother-Daughter Knot in the Fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison by Victoria Burrows 9781403921987
Booksplease Price: £48.22This original and incisive study of the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison uses cutting edge cultural and literary theory to examine the 'knotted' mother-daughter relations that... -
Critical Responses about the Black Family in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child: Conflicts in Comradeship by Rhone Fraser 9781793604002
Booksplease Price: £37.42Critical Responses About the Black Family in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child explores the integral role of what Kobi Kambon has called the "conscious African family" in developing commercial... -
New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child: Race, Culture, and History by Alice Knox Eaton 9781496828880
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Contributions by Alice Knox Eaton, Mar Gallego, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber, Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally, Susana Vega-Gonzalez, and Anissa WardiIn her eleventh novel, God Help... -
Whiteness and Trauma: The Mother-Daughter Knot in the Fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison by Victoria Burrows 9781137440853
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.36This original and incisive study of the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison uses cutting edge cultural and literary theory to examine the 'knotted' mother-daughter relations that... -
New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child: Race, Culture, and History by Alice Knox Eaton 9781496828873
Booksplease Price: £99.43Contributions by Alice Knox Eaton, Mar Gallego, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber, Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally, Susana Vega-Gonzalez, and Anissa WardiIn her eleventh novel, God Help... -
A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'Full of subtle poignancy ... each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social codes of masculinity and the vulnerable, volatile self' New Yorker ... -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780099541530
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Read F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of love, money, revenge and betrayal set in Jazz Age America. Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being... -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780099577720
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his... -
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 9781784877088
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from... -
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron 9780099285564
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEIn 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar... -
Oral Folk Traditions in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon - African American History, Geneology and Cultural Identity by Szilvia Suranyi 9783639011906
RRP: £40.67Booksplease Price: £37.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639011906Author Szilvia SuranyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint -
The Outsider by Richard Wright
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Powerful as [Richard Wright] was - is - as a writer, nobody can surpass him in doing certain kinds of writing... He is courageous - he was able to look into areas that nobody at that time was... -
New Dimensions of Spirituality: A Bi-Racial and Bi-Cultural Reading of the Novels of Toni Morrison by Karla F. C. Holloway 9780313257421
Booksplease Price: £61.63This series of essays on Toni Morrison's first four novels--The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Sula, and Tar Baby is the delightful, intelligent collaboration of a white of Greek descent... -
Prophets of Recognition: Idelogy and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty by Julia Eichelberger 9780807125281
Booksplease Price: £30.90An arresting comparative analysis, Prophets of Recognition invites readers to consider four well-known post-World War II American novels, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Toni Morrison's The Bluest... -
Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23While stowed away on a transatlantic freighter, Lafala is discovered and locked away in an icy-cold closet, resulting in the loss of his frostbitten legs. When his successful lawsuit against the... -
Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Conde
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'An extraordinary storyteller' Bernardine Evaristo'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Riviere au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the mountains...'Francis... -
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 9781529962208
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age tale of illusion, delusion and the American dream, complete with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper... -
Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy by Dennis Looney 9780268033866
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.93Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many surprising ways in which Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy have... -
A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme power over the most militant organization in America'In 1974 Elaine Brown... -
The Famished Road by Ben Okri 9781529114911
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel 'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy... -
The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair, a summer celebration at which the old and infirm sell their produce on stalls to the people... -
Faith in Fakes Umberto Eco 9780749396282
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty,... -
Why Any Woman: Feminism and Popular Culture in the Late Twentieth-Century South by Keira V. Williams 9780820365572
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £30.85Scholars are revisiting the history of feminist activism and organizations, mining it for a revisionist, grassroots gender politics in the South. Why Any Woman advances this line of historical... -
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RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.31WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use' The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the... -
The Famished Road by Ben Okri 9780099929307
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use' The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the... -
Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and... -
Indigo Or Mapping The Waters by Marina Warner 9780099154518
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries. Rich, sensual and magical in its use of myths and fairytales Indigo explores... -
I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.70The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary filmIn June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through... -
White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A novel about London -- its past, its people, its underbelly and its madness."In this extraordinary work Sinclair combines a spiritual inquest into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of... -
Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Porter
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers... -
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin 9780241342039
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself.'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one... -
Cultural Studies: Volume 9 Issue 2: Special issue: Toni Morrison and the Curriculum, edited by Warren Crichton and Cameron McCarthy Lawrence Grossberg 9780415123792
Booksplease Price: £36.11First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice RadwayBook InformationISBN 9780415123792Author Lawrence Grossberg
The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums by Brian Morton
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.68Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in 1001 Best Albums is an indispensible guide to the recordings that every fan should know. Richard Cook and Brian...
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition by Schomburg Center
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11A groundbreaking collection of abolitionist writing from throughout the history of American slaveryFrom the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade to the ambiguity of the reconstruction era,...![Toni Morrison and the Maternal: From "The Bluest Eye" to "God Help the Child", Revised Edition by Linda Wagner-Martin 9781433170768](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8218397/9254121/9781433170768__09190.1749426715.jpg?c=1 "Toni Morrison and the Maternal: From "The Bluest Eye" to "God Help the Child", Revised Edition by Linda Wagner-Martin 9781433170768")
Toni Morrison and the Maternal: From "The Bluest Eye" to "God Help the Child", Revised Edition by Linda Wagner-Martin 9781433170768
RRP: £38.70Booksplease Price: £35.33In this revised edition, Linda Wagner-Martin offers a compelling study of African American writer Toni Morrison's work, beginning with The Bluest Eye in 1970 and continuing through her 2015 novel God...
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.03'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'James Baldwin's impassioned...