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Stuart Hall by James Procter
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39James Procter's introduction places Hall's work within its historical contexts, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and influences, as well as to his critics and his intellectual legacy.Stuart... -
Stuart Hall by James Procter 9780415262675
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.57James Procter's introduction places Hall's work within its historical contexts, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and influences, as well as to his critics and his intellectual legacy.Stuart... -
Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing by James Procter
Booksplease Price: £23.54Explores some of the key venues of black British literary and cultural production across the postwar period: bedsits and basements; streets and cafes; train stations and tourist landscapes; the... -
Writing Black Britain, 1948-98: An Interdisciplinary Anthology by James Procter
Booksplease Price: £23.54The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume.... -
Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black Atlantic by James Procter 9780198894179
Booksplease Price: £89.86Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid-century decades of shrinking British sovereignty,... -
Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference by James Procter 9781137276391
Booksplease Price: £46.28Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart, White Teeth, Brick Lane and Small Island, this book... -
A Black British Canon? by G. Low 9781349521562
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.75This much-needed collection examines the formation of a black British canon including writers, dramatists, film-makers and artists. Contributors including John McLeod, Michael McMillan, Mike Phillips... -
Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception Bethan Benwell (University of Stirling, UK) 9781138851559
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption... -
Caribbean Literature After Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace by Bill Schwarz 9781900039918
Booksplease Price: £28.57Trinidad, historically located at the crossroads of the Americas, has produced an incomparable national literature, fashioning genres that have informed the Caribbean region as a whole. One of the... -
Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature by Dave Gunning 9781846318535
Booksplease Price: £31.16'Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature' offers the first extended exploration of the cultural impact of the politics of race and antiracism in Britain through focussing on... -
Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing by Jonathan P. A. Sell 9780230314221
Booksplease Price: £46.74Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of... -
Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives by Jeannette Baxter 9781441160454
Booksplease Price: £112.13Andrea Levy has emerged as one of the most significant and popular voices in contemporary black British writing both in the UK and abroad. Drawing on a familial history of emigration, her... -
Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives by Jeannette Baxter 9781441113603
Booksplease Price: £29.88Andrea Levy has emerged as one of the most significant and popular voices in contemporary black British writing both in the UK and abroad. Drawing on a familial history of emigration, her... -
The Black and White Museum by Ferdinand Dennis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61From Ferdinand Dennis, the critically acclaimed author of the novel Duppy Conqueror, comes The Black and White Museum, a collection of both highly personal and universal short stories. These at their... -
Reading Postcolonial Literature: From Professional to Non-Professional Practices Hayley G. Toth 9781836243137
Booksplease Price: £31.16An Open Access edition will be available on publication thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative. Debates about... -
Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution Chloe Ashbridge 9781032485027
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book shows how twenty-first-century writing about Northern England imagines alternative democratic futures for the region and the English nation, signalling the growing awareness of England as a... -
Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets Jackie Kay 9781852249298
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.45From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland,... -
Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference by J. Procter 9781349446650
Booksplease Price: £46.74Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart, White Teeth, Brick Lane and Small Island, this book... -
The Adoption Papers Jackie Kay 9781852241568
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter. The Adoption Papers won the Forward... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures Toral Jatin Gajarawala 9781350261792
Booksplease Price: £42.96The texts that make up postcolonial print cultures are often found outside the archival catalogue, and in lesser-examined repositories such as personal collections, the streets, or appendages to... -
Darling: New and Selected Poems Jackie Kay 9781852247775
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Humour, Gender, Sexuality, Sensuality, Identity, Racism, and Cultural Difference. When do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay's part of the equation. "Darling"... -
Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial by Parama Roy
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21In Alimentary Tracts Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization. In crucial ways,...