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Ngugi wa Thiong'o by Simon Gikandi
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £42.75Kenyan dramatist and novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a hugely influential African writer respected not only for his creative work but also for his criticism of wider cultural issues - issues such as... -
Encyclopedia of African Literature Simon Gikandi 9780415549622
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.64The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering... -
Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Simon Gikandi 9780691160979
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.32It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in... -
Ngugi wa Thiong'o by Simon Gikandi 9780521480062
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.30Kenyan dramatist and novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a hugely influential African writer respected not only for his creative work but also for his criticism of wider cultural issues - issues such as... -
Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature by Simon Gikandi
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47In Simon Gikandi's view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity-a relationship in which the... -
Reading Chinua Achebe - Language and Ideology in Fiction by Simon Gikandi 9780852555279
Booksplease Price: £29.68Analysis of the writings of Chinua Achebe aimed at students of literature. Simon Gikandi has set out to reveal '...the very nature of [Achebe's] creativity, its prodigious complexity and richness.... -
Rethinking Eastern African Literary And Intellectual Landscapes by Simon Gikandi 9781592218868
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £27.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592218868Author Simon GikandiFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint -
The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 by Simon Gikandi 9780231125208
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.65The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 challenges the conventional belief that the English-language literary traditions of East Africa are restricted to the former... -
Writing and Race by Tim Youngs 9780582273757
Booksplease Price: £51.34Writing and Race brings together specially commissioned essays by new and established authors from a range of disciplines. Texts are drawn from subjects and genres that include philosophy, politics,... -
Philip Quaque's letters to London, 1763-1811 by Adeleke Adeeko 9781868888405
Booksplease Price: £35.02``There are many reasons to welcome Adeleke Ade?ko's new edition of the letters of the Reverend Phillip Quaque: the letters bring new insights into the contradictions that defined the encounter... -
An Introduction to West Indian Poetry by Laurence A. Breiner 9780521587129
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.96This introduction to West Indian poetry is written for readers making their first approach to poetry in English written in the Caribbean. It offers a comprehensive literary history from the 1920s to... -
Cultural Conundrums: Gender, Race, Nation, and the Making of Caribbean Cultural Politics by Natasha Barnes 9780472069392
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.31The failure of the radical leftist political tradition in the Anglophone Caribbean, according to Natasha Barnes, has brought increasing attention to the study of culture in the region. Academics,... -
African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory Tejumola Olaniyan (University of Wisconsin) 9781405112017
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £38.76This is the first anthology to bring together the key texts of African literary theory and criticism. Brings together key texts that are otherwise hard to locateCovers all genres and critical... -
Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora by H.W. Fairman 9781350360686
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £31.35The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series presents a... -
African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory by Tejumola Olaniyan 9781405112000
RRP: £110.95Booksplease Price: £102.47This is the first anthology to bring together the key texts of African literary theory and criticism. Brings together key texts that are otherwise hard to locateCovers all genres and critical... -
Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century by John Kucich 9780816633241
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68A foundational look at contemporary uses of the Victorian and the presence of the past in postmodern culture.Celebrated films by Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, and Ang Lee; best-selling novels... -
Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing by Tabish Khair
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68". . . brings new insights into the colonial relationship while challenging the unspoken temptation that this was a distinctly European period." -Simon GikandiOther Routes collects important primary... -
Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory and the Work of Fiction Nicholas Harrison (Kings College, London) 9780745621821
Booksplease Price: £19.86In the field of postcolonial studies, the full richness and complexity of the connections between literature, history and ideology are often overlooked by critics hurrying to stake out their... -
The African-British Long Eighteenth Century: An Analysis of African-British Treaties, Colonial Economics, and Anthropological Discourse by Tcho Mbaimba Caulker 9780739127438
Booksplease Price: £95.49Tracing the development of British colonial administration in West Africa over the course of the long eighteenth century, Caulker illuminates the solidification of the administration as it goes... -
Radical Utu: Critical Ideas and Ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai by Besi Brillian Muhonja 9780896803268
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Wangari Muta Maathai was a scholar-activist known for founding the Green Belt Movement, an environmental campaign that earned her the Nobel Peace Prize. While many studies of Maathai highlight her... -
A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain by C. L. Innes
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.78Now updated and available in paperback, this is the first extended study of black and Asian writing in Britain over the last 250 years. Beginning with authors who arrived as immigrants or slaves in... -
A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England by Jed Esty
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World... -
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum by Ato Quayson 9781009299954
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.70George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary... -
Modernism and the Middle Passage Laura Winkiel 9780231217255
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Modernism is typically thought of as focusing on the new and now, not looking backward at historical catastrophes. Yet in many surprising, often submerged ways, the transatlantic slave trade shaped... -
Modernism and the Middle Passage Laura Winkiel 9780231217248
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Modernism is typically thought of as focusing on the new and now, not looking backward at historical catastrophes. Yet in many surprising, often submerged ways, the transatlantic slave trade shaped... -
Theory After 'Theory' by Derek Attridge 9780415484190
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of... -
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum by Ato Quayson 9781009299961
Booksplease Price: £20.71George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary... -
Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance by Laura Doyle
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In Inter-imperiality Laura Doyle theorizes the co-emergence of empires, institutions, language regimes, stratified economies, and literary cultures over the longue duree. Weaving together feminist,... -
Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism by Ben Conisbee Baer
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £56.55Anticolonial struggles of the interwar epoch were haunted by the question of how to construct an educational practice for all future citizens of postcolonial states. In what ways, vanguard... -
Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World out of Joint by Jennifer Wallace 9781350035621
Booksplease Price: £26.64From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the ... -
Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World out of Joint by Jennifer Wallace 9781350035614
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.80From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the ... -
Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece by Suzanne Preston Blier
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most... -
How Literatures Begin: A Global History by Joel B. Lande
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.81A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern timesLiterature is such a familiar... -
Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece by Suzanne Preston Blier 9781478000051
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £78.19In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most... -
How Literatures Begin: A Global History by Joel B. Lande 9780691186528
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern timesLiterature is such a familiar... -
A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism by Eric Hayot
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and... -
The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress by Isabel Hofmeyr 9780691116563
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93How does a book become an international bestseller? What happens to it as it is translated into different languages, contexts, and societies? How is it changed by the intellectual environments it... -
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony by Jill Jarvis 9781478011965
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46The magnitude of the legal violence exercised by the French to colonize and occupy Algeria (1830-1962) is such that only aesthetic works have been able to register its enduring effects. In... -
Literature and Culture in the Black Atlantic: From Pre- to Postcolonial by K. Campbell 9781403972231
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book extends our understanding of the black Atlantic, a term coined by Paul Gilroy to describe the political, cultural and creative interrelations among blacks living in Africa, the Americas and... -
Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion by Julie MacArthur
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.10The transcript from this historic trial, long thought destroyed or hidden, unearths a piece of the British colonial archive at a critical point in the Mau Mau Rebellion. Its discovery and landmark...