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Turner by David Dabydeen 9781900715683
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94David Dabydeen's Turner is a long narrative poem written in response to JMW Turner's celebrated painting 'Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead & Dying'. Dabydeen's poem focuses on what is hidden in... -
The Intended by David Dabydeen 9781845230135
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94The young narrator of "The Intended" is twelve when he leaves his village in rural Guyana to come to England. There, he is abandoned into social care, but with great determination and self-discipline... -
Disappearance by David Dabydeen 9781845230142
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94A young Afro-Guyanese engineer comes to a coastal Kentish village as part of a project to shore up its sea-defences. He boards with an old English woman, Mrs Rutherford, and through his relationship... -
A Harlot's Progress by David Dabydeen
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A HARLOT'S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor bound together by sexual and financial... -
Slave Song by David Dabydeen 9781845230043
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.27"Slave Song" is unquestionably one of the most important collections of Caribbean/Black British poetry to have been published in the last twenty years. On its first publication in 1984 it won the... -
Johnson's Dictionary by David Dabydeen 9781845232184
Booksplease Price: £18.62Winner of the 2014 Guyana Prize for Fiction, Johnson's Dictionary is set variously in 18th century London and Demerara in British Guiana. It is a celebration of the skills of the enslaved as... -
The Counting House by David Dabydeen 9781845230159
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Set in the early nineteenth century The Counting House follows the lives of Rohini and Vidia, a young married couple struggling for survival in a small, caste-ridden Indian village who are seduced by... -
Rented Rooms by David Dabydeen 9781871049404
RRP: £5.95Booksplease Price: £5.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871049404Author David DabydeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Dangaroo PressPublisher... -
Our Lady of Demerara by David Dabydeen 9781845230692
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Drama critic Lance Yardley is only 30 but is already a seedy wreck of a man, spending his nights in the back streets of Coventry looking for prostitutes. A working-class boy brought up in a broken... -
The Art of David Dabydeen by Kevin Grant 9781900715102
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62David Dabydeen is from the younger generation of Caribbean writers living in Britain. His work has been highly praised for its originality and imaginative depth. In this volume, leading scholars from... -
Sweet Li Jie David Dabydeen 9781845235918
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845235918Author David DabydeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher... -
The Oxford Companion to Black British History by David Dabydeen
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £32.50The Oxford Companion to Black British History is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the long and fascinating history of black people in the British Isles, from African auxiliaries... -
Pak's Britannica: Articles by and Interviews with David Dabydeen by Lynne Macedo 9789766402563
Booksplease Price: £27.62This is the first book to be devoted solely to David Dabydeen's academic works, bringing together the best of his output from the last twenty-five years with a series of interviews. Collectively,... -
The Hook of Desire: Slavery and David Dabydeen's 'Turner' Lynne Macedo 9781912662913
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912662913Author Lynne MacedoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hansib Publications... -
Talking Words: New Essays on the Work of David Dabydeen by Lynne Macedo 9789766402570
Booksplease Price: £27.02The publication of Talking Words has been designed to coincide with that of Pak's Britannica: Articles by and interviews with David Dabydeen, and provides the reader with a complimentary set of... -
Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar: Representations of Slavery Abigail Ward 9780719097645
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.05Slavery is a recurring subject in works by the contemporary black writers in Britain Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar, yet their return to this past arises from an urgent need to... -
We Mark Your Memory: writings from the descendants of indenture by David Dabydeen 9781912250073
Booksplease Price: £17.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912250073Author David DabydeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint University of London... -
The Making of Afro-Caribbean Consciousness and Identity in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson; David Dabydeen; and Fred D'Aguiar. by Dilek Bulut Sar?kaya 9781680536980
Booksplease Price: £114.12In the context of a diversified and pluralistic arena of contemporary literature embodying previously marginalized voices of region, ethnicity, gender, and class, black poets living in Britain... -
Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language John Russell Rickford 9781032068831
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.93Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford's life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford,... -
Empty treasure chests dumped from departed ships: Re-Mapping (Post)Colonialism in Art and Literature in English by Liliana Sikorska 9783631635551
RRP: £26.20Booksplease Price: £24.57Empty treasure chests dumped from departed ships is a quotation taken from David Dabydeen's poem The Old Map in which the hope of a new world is green but green symbolizes also the gangrene of the... -
The Transformative Potential of Black British and British Muslim Literature: Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation by Lisa Ahrens
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £29.69This study investigates power, belonging and exclusion in British society by analysing representations of the mosque, the University of Oxford, and the plantation in novels by Leila Aboulela, Robin... -
Incomparable World: Black Britain: Writing Back by S. I. Martin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A visceral reimagining of 1780s London, showcasing the untold stories of African-American soldiers grappling with their post-war freedom 'Remarkable' David DabydeenIn the years just after the... -
Literary Drowning: Postcolonial Memory in Irish and Caribbean Writing by Stephanie Pocock Boeninger 9780815636823
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Literary depictions of drowning or burial at sea provide fascinating glimpses into the often-conflicted human relationship with memory. For many cultures and religious traditions, properly... -
Transcultural Graffiti: Diasporic Writing and the Teaching of Literary Studies by Russell West-Pavlov 9789042019355
Booksplease Price: £72.07Transcultural Graffiti reads a range of texts - prose, poetry, drama - in several European languages as exemplars of diasporic writing. The book scrutinizes contemporary transcultural literary... -
Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature by Mary Lou Emery 9780521117098
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Vision is a recurring obsession in the work of twentieth-century Caribbean writers. This ambitious study offers a comprehensive analysis of the visual in authors from the Anglophone Caribbean as they... -
The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature Alison Donnell (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 9780415120494
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.82The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature is an outstanding compilation of over seventy primary and secondary texts of writing from the Caribbean. Locating key writers within a specifically... -
Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature by Mary Lou Emery 9780521872133
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Vision is a recurring obsession in the work of twentieth-century Caribbean writers. This ambitious study offers a comprehensive analysis of the visual in authors from the Anglophone Caribbean as they... -
Navigating Cultural Spaces: Maritime Places by Anna-Margaretha Horatschek 9789042038622
Booksplease Price: £99.63Abstract space becomes concrete place by being bound to individual and historical experience. Sea and coast - in texts from antiquity to the present mostly seen as mere spaces of transit and division... -
Whom the Kiskadees Call by Churaumanie Bissundyal 9780948833724
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.27'Things been bright last night,' Nice Gyal said to Reenee.'Like you pick up something good?''Something good?' She skinned her eyes. 'Is seven trawler men I knock down'.'Gracious.''Gracious,' Nice... -
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary by Vijay Mishra 9780415759694
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general... -
Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century by Pamela J. Albert
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century revisits eighteenth-century cultural artifacts through the lens of creative works produced by contemporary writers Beryl Gilroy (Guyana),... -
Selected Poems by Kwame Dawes 9781900715706
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Since Kwame Dawes first published his prestigious Forward Poetry prize-winning Progeny of Air in 1994, six further collections have followed which have changed the face of Caribbean poetry. New and... -
Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk Susheila Nasta (Open University, UK) 9780415345675
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Writing Across Worlds brings together a selection of interviews with major international writers previously featured in the pages of the magazine. Conducted by a wide constituency of distinguished... -
Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction by A. Robert Lee 9780745306469
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.86Britain may have ceded empire and colonies, but its colonial past permeates every corner of the land - from street-names and restaurants to second and third generation 'immigrant' communities -... -
Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past by Steven Blevins 9780816697168
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to... -
Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past by Steven Blevins 9780816697144
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to... -
Literature, Art and Slavery: Ekphrastic Visions by Carl Plasa 9780748683543
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.68Examines a range of literary responses to images drawn from the transatlantic slave trade and its aftermath A focus on texts that (with the obvious exception of David Dabydeen's 'Turner' [1994])... -
The Other Windrush: Legacies of Indenture in Britain's Caribbean Empire by Maria del Pilar Kaladeen 9780745343556
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.60'This illuminating, vivid volume is a fitting tribute to the experiences of migration' - Hanif Kureishi Between the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and the passing of the 1971... -
Clever Backbone John Agard 9781852248222
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables. In "Clever Backbone", the Guyanese-born word magician plays havoc with... -
Denis Williams: A Life in Works: New and Collected Essays by Charlotte Williams 9789042027916
Booksplease Price: £87.82Denis Williams, painter, teacher, novelist, archaeologist, and cultural administrator, is one of the founding fathers of modern Guyana. His involvement in several of the country's key cultural...