Filter By
Books (30)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Mosquito by Gayl Jones
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $16.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006627Author Gayl JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint -
Palmares by Gayl Jones
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.92A FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONPalmares hails the return of a major voice in literature - 'the best American novelist whose name you may not know' (Atlantic). Gayl Jones was first... -
Palmares by Gayl Jones 9780349015248
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92A 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTLONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE'A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world' Yara Rodriguez Fowler, Guardian... -
The Healing Gayl Jones 9780349012186
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36THE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' TAYARI JONES'The novel's richness lies in its entertaining meandering, and the vitality of its... -
Palmares by Gayl Jones 9780807007150
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007150Author Gayl JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint -
Corregidora Gayl Jones 9780349019574
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92I dreamed with my eyes open. All the Corregidora women with narrow waists and high cheekbones and wide hips. All the Corregidora woman dancing. Blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of... -
The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones 9780349016931
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'A literary giant' TAYARI JONESA richly imaginative and moving new novel from the Pulitzer finalist and acclaimed author of CorregidoraA cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to... -
White Rat by Gayl Jones 9780807012949
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807012949Author Gayl JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
The Unicorn Woman Gayl Jones 9780349016917
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.36'A literary giant' TAYARI JONESA richly imaginative and moving new novel from the Pulitzer finalist and acclaimed author of CorregidoraA cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to... -
Butter: Novellas, Stories and Fragments by Gayl Jones
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' Tayari Jones, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE'Gayl Jones is a literary legend' - Yara Rodrigues Fowler, author of THERE ARE MORE THINGS'Her... -
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho by Gayl Jones 9780349016832
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75By the acclaimed writer of Palmares and Corregidora.When the Portuguese attack Palmares, Brazil's last fugitive slave enclave, Almeyda and her husband are separated as they flee from the destruction... -
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho by Gayl Jones 9780349016825
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41By the acclaimed writer of Palmares and Corregidora.When the Portuguese attack Palmares, Brazil's last fugitive slave enclave, Almeyda and her husband are separated as they flee from the destruction... -
Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood by Angela Naimou 9780823278725
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $27.99Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth... -
Sweat: Written by Zora Neale Hurston by Zora Neale Hurston 9780813523163
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $32.36Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" was first published in Firell, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November... -
Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic by Madhu Dubey
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.83""A clear and uncluttered writer, Dubey helps us understand these ideological and literary complexities."" -- Virginia Quarterly Review.."". an important contribution to the study of African-American... -
Maud Martha (Faber Editions): 'I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo by Gwendolyn Brooks
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S 'A GOOD READ'Such a wonderful book. Utterly unique, exquisitely crafted and quietly powerful. I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine... -
Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation by Trimiko Melancon 9781439911464
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.13Unbought and Unbossed critically examines the ways black women writers in the 1970s and early 1980s deploy black female characters that transgress racial, gender, and especially sexual boundaries... -
Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity by Francoise Lionnet 9780801481802
RRP: $45.56Booksplease Price: $38.39Passionate allegiances to competing theoretical camps have stifled dialogue among today's literary critics, asserts Francoise Lionnet. Discussing a number of postcolonial narratives by women from a... -
Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy by Candice M. Jenkins 9780816647880
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.40Private Lives, Proper Relations begins with the question of why contemporary African American literature-particularly that produced by black women-is continually concerned with issues of... -
Critical Appropriations: African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity by Simone C. Drake 9780807153871
Booksplease Price: $54.78From the novels of Toni Morrison to the music of Beyonce Knowles, the cultural prevalence of a transnational black identity, as created by African American women, is more than a product of geographic... -
Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women's Writing by Anna Laquawn Hinton 9781496855046
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $26.96In Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women's Writing, author Anna LaQuawn Hinton examines how contemporary Black women writers present becoming disabled as a traumatic and violent... -
What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction by Toni Morrison 9781604730173
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.95What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison's writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when... -
The Drum Is a Wild Woman: Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora Literature by Patricia G. Lespinasse 9781496836021
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.10In 1957, Duke Ellington released the influential album A Drum Is a Woman. This musical allegory revealed the implicit truth about the role of women in jazz discourse-jilted by the musician and... -
Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life by Sarah Jane Cervenak 9781478013556
RRP: $109.88Booksplease Price: $88.24In Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black... -
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Christina Elizabeth Sharpe
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.13Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets... -
Lakewood: A Novel by Megan Giddings
Booksplease Price: $16.47NPR Book of the Year 2020Electric Literature: One of 55 Books by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Color to Read in 2020 | Lit Hub & The Millions: Most Anticipated Books of 2020 | Ms. Magazine:... -
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Christina Elizabeth Sharpe 9780822345916
RRP: $112.56Booksplease Price: $90.32Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets... -
Liontaming in America Elizabeth Willis 9780811238632
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.92LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "To disrupt the relationship of predator and prey, to reshape one's relation to power, is to renovate the lived and living world," Elizabeth... -
Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music by Eric Weisbard 9781478011941
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $111.49In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing... -
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity by La Marr Jurelle Bruce 9781478010876
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $26.96"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce...