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Chris Abani by Annalisa Oboe
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This is the first full-length book on the work of 'global Igbo' writer Chris Abani. The volume dedicates a chapter to each of Abani's fiction books, the two novellas Becoming Abigail (2006) and Song... -
Graceland by Chris Abani 9780312425289
Booksplease Price: £15.11Graceland is a dazzling debut by a singular new talent The sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to... -
Smoking the Bible by Chris Abani
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596285Author Chris AbaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Lagos Noir by Chris Abani 9781911115731
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.37An anthology of noir stories set in the tumultuous metropolis, Lagos. Edited by Chris Abani, this collection brings together brand new stories from some of Nigeria's best loved writers. From the... -
The Virgin of Flames by Chris Abani 9780143038771
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038771Author Chris AbaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint -
Daphne's Lot by Chris Abani 9781888996623
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78"The masterful wedding of the narrative and the lyric in these poems (whose subject is the maturation of a sensibility, the coming-of-age of a young Englishwoman-the power of her ties to family,... -
Hands Washing Water by Chris Abani
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592478Author Chris AbaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint -
Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani 9781888451948
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888451948Author Chris AbaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint -
Lagos Noir by Chris Abani 9781617755231
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £12.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617755231Author Chris AbaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel by Chris Abani 9780143124955
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143124955Author Chris AbaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
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A Study Guide for Chris Abani's "Graceland" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375380683
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375380683Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 46I -
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series Kwame Dawes 9781636142555
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636142555Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Kalakuta Republic: A Book of Poetry by Christopher Abani 9780863563225
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria's military regime in the late 1980s. Abani vividly describes... -
Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications by M. Krishnan 9781137378323
Booksplease Price: £46.28Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi... -
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Characters with disabilities are often overlooked in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai, Jhumpa... -
Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing: Literature, Philosophy, and the Nigerian World by Dr. or Prof. Nimi Wariboko
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.98Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse together to interrogate the ethics of governance and... -
Heed the Hollow: Poems by Malcolm Tariq 9781644450093
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £9.76Heed the Hollow introduces the work of Malcolm Tariq, whose poems explore the concept of "the bottom" across blackness, sexuality, and the American South. These lyrics of queer desire meet the voices... -
Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden by Kwame Dawes 9780810134898
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.89Borrowing from Romare Bearden's aesthetic palette and inspired by his Odysseus series, Bearden's Odyssey gathers, for the first time, poems from thirty-five of the most revered African diaspora poets... -
Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures Annalisa Oboe 9780415591928
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Modern ideas of freedom and human rights have been repeatedly contested and are hotly debated at the beginning of the third millennium in response to new theories, needs, and challenges in... -
Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature Adriaan van Klinken 9780271100401
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.49In African literature, Christianity has long been represented as a foreign religion, associated with the history and ongoing legacies of European colonialism and mission. But in recent decades,... -
Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature Adriaan van Klinken 9780271100395
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £55.80In African literature, Christianity has long been represented as a foreign religion, associated with the history and ongoing legacies of European colonialism and mission. But in recent decades,... -
Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film: A Study in Globalectics by Lokangaka Losambe 9781032195735
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa's encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and... -
Waste Matters: Urban margins in contemporary literature by Sarah K. Harrison
Booksplease Price: £60.70How do those pushed to the margins survive in contemporary cities? What role do they play in today's increasingly complex urban ecosystems? Faced with stark disparities in human and environmental... -
Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery by Yogita Goyal 9781479829590
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £57.32Winner, 2021 Rene Wellek Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, given by the International Society for the Study of... -
AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction Rochelle Spencer 9781032082370
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Examining the surrealist novels of several contemporary writers including Edwidge Danticat, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Junot Diaz, Helen Oyeyemi, and Colson Whitehead, AfroSurrealism, the first... -
Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery by Yogita Goyal
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Winner, 2021 Rene Wellek Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, given by the International Society for the Study of... -
Narrating the New African Diaspora: 21st Century Nigerian Literature in Context by Maximilian Feldner 9783030057428
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book provides the first comprehensive survey and collection of Nigerian diaspora literature, offering readings of novelists such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta, Helon Habila, Helen... -
There Where It's So Bright in Me by Tanella Boni 9781496230560
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58There Where It's So Bright in Me pries at the complexities of difference-race, religion, gender, nationality-that shape twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions. With work spanning more than... -
Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications by M. Krishnan 9781349478286
Booksplease Price: £46.74Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi... -
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights by Sophia A. McClennen 9780367365516
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and... -
African Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction by Professor Jack Taylor 9781648250910
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Examines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the politics of migration. African Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil War,... -
Say You're One Of Them by Uwem Akpan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Nothing interests Maman today, not even Jean, her favorite child ... She acts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children have fed sorghum beer.'These extraordinary stories centre on... -
Nowhere to Arrive: Poems by Jenny Xie 9780810135086
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of dislocation. These poems court the tension between the... -
New Slaveries in Contemporary British Literature and Visual Arts: The Ghost and the Camp by Pietro Deandrea 9780719096433
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61The book is a study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s.Starting from the sociological... -
The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named: Poems by Nicole Sealey 9780810133129
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium, in conjunction with Northwestern University Press, is delighted to announce that Nicole Sealey is the winner of the fourth annual Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry... -
New Slaveries in Contemporary British Literature and Visual Arts: The Ghost and the Camp by 9781526155825
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54This book is a study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s. Starting from the... -
The University of Hip-Hop: Poems by Mayda Del Valle
Booksplease Price: £9.62The University of Hip-Hop is a love letter to the city of Chicago, more specifically a particular moment in Chicago - of growth and development, coming of age, of learning how to construct a new self... -
The Fire People: A Collection of British Black and Asian Poetry by Lemn Sissay
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Winner of the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Poetry First published in 1998, The Fire People celebrated the rising stars of the time, many of whom have since become established names. Edited by... -
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology by Dohra Ahmad 9780393329605
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £17.99Rotten English spans the globe to offer an overview of the best non-standard English writing of the past two centuries, with a focus on the most recent decades. What would once have been derogatorily... -
Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Contemporary Nigerian and Kenyan Literature Dr. Penny Cartwright 9798765109717
Booksplease Price: £90.57An examination of alternate imaginaries of 'the global' in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the differing forms of agency that these imaginaries produce.Irony, Agency and the Global...