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Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora by Michelle Wright
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how... -
Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder by Jackie Orr
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Part cultural history, part sociological critique, and part literary performance, Panic Diaries explores the technological and social construction of individual and collective panic. Jackie Orr looks... -
Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile by Jane Blocker
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £16.22Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian... -
The Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary by Ann Barr Snitow
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91The Feminism of Uncertainty brings together Ann Snitow's passionate, provocative dispatches from forty years on the front lines of feminist activism and thought. In such celebrated pieces as "A... -
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex by INCITE!
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47A trillion-dollar industry, the US non-profit sector is one of the world's largest economies. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million... -
Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women by E. Patrick Johnson
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24E. Patrick Johnson's Honeypot opens with the fictional trickster character Miss B. barging into the home of Dr. EPJ, informing him that he has been chosen to collect and share the stories of her... -
The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi by Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan 9781478011200
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In The Globally Familiar Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan traces how the rapid development of information and communication technologies in India has created opportunities for young people to creatively... -
Tendencies by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 9780822314219
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling... -
The Poetics of Political Thinking by Davide Panagia 9780822337188
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In The Poetics of Political Thinking Davide Panagia focuses on the role that aesthetic sensibilities play in theorists' evaluations of political arguments. Examining works by thinkers from Thomas... -
Punk and Revolution: Seven More Interpretations of Peruvian Reality by Shane Greene 9780822362746
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26In Punk and Revolution Shane Greene radically uproots punk from its iconic place in First World urban culture, Anglo popular music, and the Euro-American avant-garde, situating it instead as a... -
Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan by E. Taylor Atkins 9780822327103
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.57Japan's jazz community-both musicians and audience-has been begrudgingly recognized in the United States for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation. Underpinning this tentative admiration,... -
Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness by Trica Danielle Keaton 9780822352624
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society. France's constitutional and legal... -
Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny by Sarah Banet-Weiser 9781478002918
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In Empowered Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the deeply entwined relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny as it plays out in advertising, online and multimedia platforms, and nonprofit... -
Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar by Luise S. White 9781478011729
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia during the 1964-1979 Zimbabwean... -
Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics by Jeffrey Sconce 9780822339533
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14Bad Girls Go to Hell. Cannibal Holocaust. Eve and the Handyman. Examining film culture's ongoing fascination with the low, bad, and sleazy faces of cinema, Sleaze Artists brings together film... -
Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity by Dorinne Kondo 9781478000945
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08In this bold, innovative work, Dorinne Kondo theorizes the racialized structures of inequality that pervade theater and the arts. Grounded in twenty years of fieldwork as dramaturg and playwright,... -
Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker by McKenzie Wark 9781478014683
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91It's time to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde... -
An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960 by Caroline Chung Simpson 9780822327462
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £31.26There have been many studies on the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. But An Absent Presence is the first to focus on how popular... -
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity by Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9780822362722
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £15.65In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking... -
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller 9780822346036
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £18.99Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New... -
Alternative Medicine by Rafael Campo 9780822355878
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.92In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally... -
Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940 by Wilson Chacko Jacob 9780822346623
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.95Working Out Egypt is both a rich cultural history of the formation of an Egyptian national subject in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth and a compelling critique of modern Middle... -
The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social by Patricia Ticineto Clough 9780822339113
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £75.84"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays... -
Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio by Timothy D. Taylor 9780822349273
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £107.96This unique anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, film sound, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the... -
Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico by Paja Faudree 9780822354161
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14Singing for the Dead chronicles ethnic revival in Oaxaca, Mexico, where new forms of singing and writing in the local Mazatec indigenous language are producing powerful, transformative political... -
An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo by Rachel Marie Niehuus 9781478025757
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In An Archive of Possibilities, anthropologist and surgeon Rachel Marie Niehuus explores possibilities of healing and repair in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo against a backdrop of 250... -
Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-first Century by Lydia Chavez 9780822334828
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £90.20When the Soviet Union dissolved, so did the easy credit, cheap oil, and subsidies it had provided to Cuba. The bottom fell out of the Cuban economy, and many expected that Castro’s revolution—the one... -
The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China by Gang Yue 9780822323419
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." A concept manifest in the... -
Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative by Patrick O'Donnell 9780822325581
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Latent Destinies examines the formation of postmodern sensibilities and their relationship to varieties of paranoia that have been seen as widespread in this century. Despite the fact that the Cold... -
Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad by Aisha Khan 9780822333760
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90Mixing-whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism-is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with... -
The Enemy by Rafael Campo 9780822338628
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71In his fifth collection of poetry, the physician and award-winning writer Rafael Campo considers what it means to be the enemy in America today. Using the empathetic medium of a poetry grounded in... -
Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties by Andrea Giunta 9780822338772
RRP: £144.00Booksplease Price: £117.09The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above... -
Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917-1936 by Joanne Hershfield 9780822342212
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14In the years following the Mexican Revolution, visual images of la chica moderna, the modern woman, au courant in appearance and attitude, popped up in mass media across the country. Some of the... -
The New Pluralism: William Connolly and the Contemporary Global Condition by David Campbell 9780822342700
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61William Connolly, one of the best-known and most important political theorists writing today, is a principal architect of the "new pluralism." In this volume, leading thinkers in contemporary... -
The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time by Jane Gallop 9780822350637
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14For thirty years the "death of the author" has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan in literary theory, widely understood and much debated as a dismissal of the author, a declaration of... -
Havana beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mappings after 1989 by Anke Birkenmaier 9780822350521
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet... -
All in the Family: On Community and Incommensurability by Kennan Ferguson 9780822351764
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Western political philosophers since Plato have used the family as a model for harmonious political and social relations. Yet, far from being an uncontentious domain for shared interests and common... -
Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House by Esra Akcan 9780822352945
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.57In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. She shows how members... -
Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil by Victoria Langland 9780822352983
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14Speaking of Flowers is an innovative study of student activism during Brazil's military dictatorship (1964-85) and an examination of the very notion of student activism, which changed dramatically in... -
Governing Indigenous Territories: Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon by Juliet S. Erazo 9780822354406
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of...