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Paperback. For the first time, a distinctive collection of plays by African women published in English Editor(s): Perkins, Kathy A. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 photographs. BIC Classification: 1H; DD; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075735
- ISBN
- 9780252075735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. This book examines literature by African, Native, and Jewish American novelists at the beginning of the twentieth century, a period of radical dislocation from homelands for these three ethnic groups as well as the period when such voices established themselves as central figures in the American literary canon. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJK; HBL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349538003
- ISBN
- 9781349538003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFC; JFSL3; JFSL9; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403977977
- ISBN
- 9781403977977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 188 x 18. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590335666
- ISBN
- 9781590335666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.66€ 61.84
€ 79.66
€ 61.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 256. 210 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; GTB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 12. Weight: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Africa World Pr
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592210565
- ISBN
- 9781592210565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.97
€ 26.97
Paperback. Series: Black Literature & Culture S. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226035437
- ISBN
- 9780226035437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Hardback. Michelle D. Commander traces how black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa through speculative literature and film and travel to cultural heritage sites as means to create a sense of homecoming, belonging, and connection with their ancestors, spiritual realm, and Africa. Num Pages: 296 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822363118
- ISBN
- 9780822363118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Paperback. Michelle D. Commander traces how black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa through speculative literature and film and travel to cultural heritage sites as means to create a sense of homecoming, belonging, and connection with their ancestors, spiritual realm, and Africa. Num Pages: 296 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363231
- ISBN
- 9780822363231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Hardcover. This book investigates Kamau Brathwaite's and Derek Walcott's postcolonial debates, reading them against the traditional sites of the Caribbean imaginary. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623644
- ISBN
- 9780230623644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.45
€ 105.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349384952
- ISBN
- 9781349384952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Afro-Cuban identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJ; APFA; DSB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611484229
- ISBN
- 9781611484229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 130.02
€ 130.02
Hardback. This study deals with representation and resistance in Afro-Uruguayan culture. It explores the manner in which Afro- Uruguayans defined, and continue to affirm, their "place" in a country in which societal and self perceptions were/are constantly shifting. Num Pages: 173 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 173
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611481860
- ISBN
- 9781611481860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.89
€ 121.89
Hardcover. Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance and its impact on modernist studies. This title explores the term 'Afromodernisms' and the study to address together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic. It sets an agenda for the study of blackness and modernism. Editor(s): Sweeney, Fionnghuala; Marsh, Kate. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748646401
- ISBN
- 9780748646401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.65
€ 145.65
Paperback. Features poems that reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. This work examines the human condition through subjects ranging from spareness, possibility, judgement and hidden grief to global warming, insomnia, meanings in overlooked parts of speech, and the metaphysics of sneezing. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 7. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 104
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852247416
- ISBN
- 9781852247416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.48
€ 16.99
€ 13.48
This book chronicles the demise of the so-called leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSB; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 1120. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804781497
- ISBN
- 9780804781497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 129.31
€ 129.31
Hardback. The essays in this volume discuss the changing purpose of reading from late antiquity to the Renaissance. "A most unusual, fascinating, and rich book, very well written, with copious scholarly notes."-Choice Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812236026
- ISBN
- 9780812236026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.76
€ 68.76
Paperback. What does it mean to come after Blanchot? Three things, at least. First, it is to recognise that it is no longer possible to believe in an essentialist determination of literary discourse or of aesthetic experience. Second, there is the question of history. Here, a third meaning to the phrase "after Blanchot" comes into view. Editor(s): Hill, Leslie; Nelson, Brian; Vardoulakis, Dimitris. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 277
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874139464
- ISBN
- 9780874139464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.95
€ 64.95
Paperback. The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help. Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfect, too pure' to be normal; it has lasted for two months. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099506249
- ISBN
- 9780099506249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Hardback. The transformation of the American sense of religious identity and destiny that occurred toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth is illustrated through a literary and cultural analysis of the fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser. Num Pages: 165 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 165
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480627
- ISBN
- 9781611480627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.04
€ 117.04
Paperback. Explores the ways in which three novelists of empire - Paul Scott, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie - have charted the blurred boundaries of identity in the wake of British imperialism. This text provides readings of post-colonial fiction, showing how imperialism shaped British national identity. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226304755
- ISBN
- 9780226304755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.08
€ 34.99
€ 28.08