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Selected Essays of Wilson Harris by Wilson Harris
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown . This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his... -
The Ghost of Memory by Wilson Harris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51I had been shot. A bullet in my back. I fell. Where did I fall? I fell from a great height, it seemed, into a painting in a gallery in a great City. I found myself returning across centuries and... -
The Guyana Quartet by Wilson Harris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This epic masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris' centenary.'An exhilarating experience ... Genius.' Jamaica... -
Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions) by Wilson Harris
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ...'My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'An... -
What the League of Nations Is H. Wilson Harris 9781032948522
RRP: £62.99Booksplease Price: £60.08Originally published in 1925, written by someone who was associated with the work of the League of Nations from the beginning, this concise book is a clear and short account of the structure,... -
What the League of Nations Is H. Wilson Harris 9781032948676
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Originally published in 1925, written by someone who was associated with the work of the League of Nations from the beginning, this concise book is a clear and short account of the structure,... -
Exploring the Palace of the Peacock: Essays on Wilson Harris by 9789766401405
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.16Joyce Sparer Adler lived in Guyana for five years teaching at the University of Guyana, where she developed a lifelong interest in the Guyanese novelist, poet and surveyor Wilson Harris. Her... -
Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris by Gianluca Delfino
RRP: £29.90Booksplease Price: £22.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838202655Author Gianluca DelfinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint
The Womb of Space: The Cross-Cultural Imagination by Wilson Harris 9780313237744
Booksplease Price: £75.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313237744Author Wilson HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 189Imprint
Wilson Harris and the Modern Tradition: A New Architecture of the World by Sandra E. Drake 9780313247835
Booksplease Price: £76.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorake /f Sandra /i E.Book InformationISBN 9780313247835Author Sandra E. DrakeFormat
Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison by Sam Durrant 9780791459454
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Sam Durrant's powerfully original book compares the ways in which the novels of J. M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison memorialize the traumatic histories of racial oppression that continue...
Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison by Sam Durrant 9780791459461
Booksplease Price: £33.43A cross-cultural analysis of the work of Coetzee, Harris and Morrison, demonstrating that the fundamental task of postcolonial narrative is the work of mourning.Sam Durrant's powerfully original book...
Multilingualism and the Twentieth-Century Novel: Polyglot Passages by James Reay Williams 9783030058098
Booksplease Price: £65.96This book argues that the Anglophone novel in the twentieth century is, in fact, always multilingual. Rooting its analysis in modern Europe and the Caribbean, it recognises that monolingualism, not...
Paracritical Hinge: Essay, Talks, Notes, Interviews by Nathaniel Mackey 9781609385835
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £33.95Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interrelated pieces highlighting Nathaniel Mackey's multifaceted work as writer and critic. It embraces topics ranging from Walt Whitman's interest in...
Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession Jodi A Byrd 9781478032649
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.95Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video...
Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession Jodi A Byrd 9781478029274
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £81.70Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video...
The Shutter of Snow (Faber Editions): 'Extraordinary.' Lucy Ellmann by Emily Holmes Coleman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Introduced by Claire-Louise Bennett, experience one new mother's psychological journey in this lost 1930 foremother of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar.'Astonishing and moving. A pretty amazing book.'...
The Sleepers of Roraima & The Age of the Rainmakers by Harris Wilson 9781845231651
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94In 1970 and 1971, Wilson Harris published two short story collections that explored the myths, fables and fragments of history of the Amerindian peoples of Guyana and the Caribbean. These are brought...
Anancy in the Great House: Ways of Reading West Indian Fiction by Joyce E. Jonas 9780313273445
Booksplease Price: £61.63This volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to six examples of West Indian fiction, combining symbolic anthropology with traditional literary criticism. Focusing on works by George Lamming and...
Mau Mau and the Kikuyu Louis Leakey 9781138861879
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This widely-acclaimed book on a troubled period of Kenyan history summarizes some of the more important Kikuyu customs, and a discussion of their break-down under the impact of European civilization...
Heartland by Harris Wilson 9781845230968
Booksplease Price: £14.30This visionary novel follows the inner journey of Zechariah Stevenson, the son of a wealthy Georgetown businessman, while he works as the watchman at a timber depot deep within the interior. Isolated...
Mimesis, Genres and Post-Colonial Discourse: Deconstructing Magic Realism by Jean-Pierre Durix 9780312215859
Booksplease Price: £92.20Through a broad-ranging survey of the allegory, utopia, the historical novel and the epic in post-colonial literature, Jean-Pierre Durix proposes a critical reassessment of the theory of genres. He...
Coterminous Worlds: Magical realism and contemporary post-colonial literature in English by Elsa Linguanti 9789042004382
Booksplease Price: £43.73The present collection of essays endeavours to furnish informed responses to central questions posed by the editors: Is the fact that the marvellous coexists with the factual and never resolves...
Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction by Jason R. Marley 9780813950136
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.27Difficult Reading offers a new approach to formal experimentation in Caribbean literature. In this insightful study, Jason Marley demonstrates how the aggressive, antagonistic elements common to the...
Translating Kali's Feast: The Goddess in Indo-Caribbean Ritual and Fiction by Stephanos Stephanides 9789042013810
Booksplease Price: £84.67Translating Kali's Feast is an interdisciplinary study of the Goddess Kali bringing together ethnography and literature within the theoretical framework of translation studies. The idea for the book...
Afro-Cuban Religions and the Arts: A Dog Has Four Legs but Takes Only One Path by Alan West-Durán 9781793639820
Booksplease Price: £92.54Afro-Cuban Religions and the Arts: A Dog Has Four LegsBut Takes Only One Path argues for an understanding of Afro-Cuban religions and Vodou through the arts, be it through music, the visual arts,...
Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze: Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-Continental Philosophy by Lorna Burns 9781472569554
Booksplease Price: £40.38Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze maps a new intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present,...
Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts by Emily O'Dell 9781793607157
Booksplease Price: £75.81Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts explores alternative approaches to Caribbean texts from transnational and multilingual perspectives. The authors query what new systems and criteria...
Exploring Victorian Travel Literature: Disease, Race and Climate by Jessica Howell
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60This interdisciplinary study explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across...
The Language of Eldorado by Mark McWatt 9781845234027
Booksplease Price: £12.22Winner of the Guyana Prize, The Language of Eldorado has been long recognised as an outstanding work of Caribbean poetry. Its beauty lies in its ability to convey complex ideas through concrete...
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...
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...
Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin, Ireland) 9781138820814
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses paradise discourse in a wide range of writing from Mexico, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka, including novels by authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard...
Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics by Charlotte Rogers 9780813942650
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £68.73What ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues that El Dorado has not been forgotten and still inspires 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....
Memory and Myth: Postcolonial Religion in Contemporary Guyanese Fiction and Poetry by Fiona Darroch 9789042025769
Booksplease Price: £83.88This book investigates the problematical historical location of the term 'religion' and examines how this location has affected the analytical reading of postcolonial fiction and poetry. The adoption...
The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean by Dashiell Moore 9780198879800
RRP: £74.00Booksplease Price: £71.57The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean challenges the structural opposition of indigeneity and creolisation through a historical and literary analysis of the connections...
Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics by Charlotte Rogers 9780813942667
Booksplease Price: £35.22What ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues that El Dorado has not been forgotten and still inspires the...
Theorizing a Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary: Sugar and Obeah Keith Sandiford 9781138868861
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points...
School of Udhra by Nathaniel Mackey 9780872862784
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68School of Udhra takes its title from the Bedouin poetic tradition associated with the seventh-century Arab poet Djamil, the Udhrite school of poets who, "when loving die." Bedouin tradition, however,...