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Hope Isn't Stupid: Utopian Affects in Contemporary American Literature by Sean Austin Grattan 9781609385217
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.55Hope Isn't Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contemporary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely... -
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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... -
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in... -
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson 9780141995151
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens... -
So What: The Life of Miles Davis by John Szwed
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Miles Davis was one of the crucial influences in the development of modern jazz. His Kind of Blue is an automatic inclusion in any critic's list of the great jazz albums, the one record people who... -
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 9780099419785
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.74'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of... -
Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott 9780140439892
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Set within a framing narrative told by Chrystal Croftangry, these three stories are set in the years following the Jacobite defeat and all feature characters who are leaving Scotland to seek their... -
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Dear Tom by Tom Courtenay 9780552999267 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'I suppose my luck is You, Ann and Dad and more so if I could really write.' Annie Eliza CourtenayTom Courtenay was born in Hull in 1937 and brought up near the fish dock where his father worked... -
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
Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton 9780349703541
Booksplease Price: £15.99Osira was born and raised in the insular, suffocating town of Curdle Creek. Stuck in time and entrenched in elusive traditions, Curdle Creek has one particularly strict policy: one in, one out -...
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'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...
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Set in the early twentieth century, when the death of the emperor...
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 9781841593418
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15At the turn of the twentieth century. When their father dies young, exhausted by the failure of his attempts at agriculture, it is left to the visionary Alexandra to guide the family to prosperity...
The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction by Angelyn Mitchell 9780813530697
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.15The Freedom to Remember examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. The narratives at the center of this book include: Octavia E. Butler's...
First Born Girls Bernice McFadden 9781784744427
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.37An astonishing, intimate and powerful memoir by the author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick SugarThis is necessary work. This is love work. This is legacy literature about me and mine born into a...
Where Women are Kings: from the author of The Language of Kindness Christie Watson 9781849163811
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Elijah, seven years old, is covered in scars and has a history of disruptive behaviour. His adoptive mother Nikki believes that she and her husband Obi are strong enough to accept his difficulties -...
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 9781784870799
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this...
The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A book full of marvels' New YorkerThe American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with the fight for civil rights. She...
'High-Topped Shoes' and Other Signifiers of Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Selected Fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison by Tommie Lee Jackson 9780761834977
Booksplease Price: £38.41"High-topped Shoes" and Other Signifiers of Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Selected Fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison examines the means through which individuals, historically,...
Rummage: A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused to Let Go Emily Cockayne 9781781258521
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Brilliantly original ... shimmering book. ... What binds this book together and gives it a numinous quality is the tenderness that the author displays for other people's ingenious leftovers, from...
Why the Sister in Black Works Hardest: African-American as Labour in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor by Madhumita Purkayastha 9788126925797
Booksplease Price: £27.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788126925797Author Madhumita PurkayasthaFormat HardbackPage Count 458I
In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.461980s Syria, our young narrator is living a secluded life behind the veil in the vast and perfumed house of her grandparents in Aleppo. Her three aunts, Maryam the pious one; Safaa, the liberal; and...
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee 9781784752637
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN''Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends...
Spiritual Empowerment in Afro-American Literature Frederick Douglass, Rebecca Jackson, Booker T. Washington, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison by James H Jr Evans 9780773408661
Booksplease Price: £56.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408661Author James H Jr EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint
The Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories by Alun Richards
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47'It is my hope that the Wales of the past and present is well represented in this volume, together with the world of work and workmen in some of our more ravaged terrains.'In twenty-four short...
Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century Markus Nehl 9783837636666
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £28.38Markus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, Canada and Jamaica. Nehl's provocative readings of Toni Morrison's A...
Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: Expanded Edition Barbara Lupack (Royalty Account) 9781580463720
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.06A comprehensive analysis of the ways in which the black American experience has been depicted in film adaptations of popular literature. The cinematic representation of blacks, especially in...
Haruko/Love Poems by June Jordan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Selected by Sean Hewitt as a Granta Book of the Year In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both...
Dear Tom by Tom Courtenay
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00'I suppose my luck is You, Ann and Dad and more so if I could really write.' Annie Eliza CourtenayTom Courtenay was born in Hull in 1937 and brought up near the fish dock where his father worked...
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 9780099466734
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this...
Ain't I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now'A former slave and one of the most powerful...
Through Their Sister's Eyes: Representations of Black Men in Some of the Early Fictions of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara by Komla Messan Nubukpo 9783962030438
RRP: £44.90Booksplease Price: £41.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783962030438Author Komla Messan NubukpoFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Im
The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The 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...
Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism: Race and Identification by Carl Plasa 9780333687703
Booksplease Price: £38.42This book explores questions of race and identification in writings from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on post-colonial theory, it provides close readings of texts by Olaudah Equiano,...
A Piece Of Cake by Cupcake Brown
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Phenomenal woman' The Oprah Magazine'Dazzles you with the amazing change that is possible in one lifetime.' Washington Post-This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake Brown...![A Piece Of Cake by Cupcake Brown 9780553818178 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9666818/10683538/9780553818178__88677.1781289805.jpg?c=1 "A Piece Of Cake by Cupcake Brown 9780553818178 [USED COPY]")
A Piece Of Cake by Cupcake Brown 9780553818178 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'Phenomenal woman' The Oprah Magazine'Dazzles you with the amazing change that is possible in one lifetime.' Washington Post-This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake Brown...
The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today by Wahneema Lubiano 9780679760689
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679760689Author Wahneema LubianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint
Curdle Creek Yvonne Battle-Felton 9780349703534
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Osira was born and raised in the insular, suffocating town of Curdle Creek. Stuck in time and entrenched in elusive traditions, Curdle Creek has one particularly strict policy: one in, one out -...
Imagining Characters: Six Conversations about Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eli Ot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison by A S Byatt 9780679777533
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679777533Author A. S. ByattFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis 9780099558705
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A NEW EDITION OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL'Remarkable' Sunday Times'Ms. Mathis has a gift for imbuing her characters' stories with an epic dimension that recalls Toni Morrison's writing'...