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Paperback. Postpartum depression affects millions of new mothers every year. This is an epic poem to women everywhere. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2FMC; BM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 205 x 21. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241966259
ISBN
9780241966259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Recovering politically potent poems aiming from "the long lost father of modern Black poetry" Editor(s): Tidwell, John Edgar. Series: American Poetry Recovery Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 photographs. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252074684
ISBN
9780252074684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.91

Paperback. Documents the struggles and successes of three generations of African writers as they strive to establish their artistic, literary, and cultural identities in France. This work explores African writing and identity in France from the early negritude movement and the founding of the Presence Africaine publishing house in 1947 to the mid-1990s. Num Pages: 376 pages, 21 photographs, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252069352
ISBN
9780252069352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.30

paperback. Establishing an imaginative space for blackness, four mid-century American writers resist literary segregation Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
American Literatures Initiative United States
Edition
American Literatures Initiative
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439909430
ISBN
9781439909430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813562490
ISBN
9780813562490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.62

Paperback. Black Roads traces the impact of the Famine on Irish literature from William Carlton's The Black Prophet (from which the title is taken) to more contemporary work by authors Num Pages: 44 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 283 x 231 x 5. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Quinnipiac University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780990468646
ISBN
9780990468646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.02

Paperback. Presents a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory, this book presents an argument that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2ADF; APFA; DSBF; JFFK; JFSL3; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822323402
ISBN
9780822323402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Argues for a redefinition of the genre of black American autobiography to include the images of women as well as their memoirs, reminiscences, diaries, and journals - as a corrective to both black and feminist literary criticism. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780877228035
ISBN
9780877228035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.81

Paperback. A collection of critical essays on black women's writing from Afro-American, African, South African, British and Caribbean novelists, poets, short story writers and a dramatist. Editor(s): Wisker, Gina. Series: Insights. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333522530
ISBN
9780333522530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 184.24

Paperback. Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the 'girlfriend' as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory and language. He considers how the works of writers such as Toni Morrison and Ama Ata Aidoo inform the debates over the concept of identity. Num Pages: 246 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813533674
ISBN
9780813533674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

Paperback. This collection of major essays spans Hortense Spiller's work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American literature. Num Pages: 584 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 144 x 30. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226769806
ISBN
9780226769806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.19

Hardback. Including 410 entries-drawn from over 100 years of novels, short stories, plays, and children's and young adult literature-this bibliography demonstrates both the extent and the richness of the fiction which has been written about Black-Jewish relations in America, thus enhancing our view of American ethnic literature as a whole. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, indexes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; DSK; GBCR; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810842182
ISBN
9780810842182
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.41

paperback. Series: African Studies. Num Pages: 259 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bayreuth African Studies
Condition
New
SKU
V9783927510456
ISBN
9783927510456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.39

Paperback. Explores the works of leading black and Jewish writers from the 1950s to the 1980s. Series Editor(s): Gelpi, Albert (Stanford University, California); Posnock, Ross. Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 375. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004244
ISBN
9780521635752
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. "Blake and Homosexuality" studies William Blake's developing sympathy with male and female homosexuality in a period of public hatred and victimization. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; DSC; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349630219
ISBN
9781349630219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892540518
ISBN
9780892540518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.98

Hardback. Despite his reputation as a staunch individualist and repeated attacks on institutions that constrain the individual's imagination, Julia Wright argues that William Blake rarely represents isolation positively and explores his concern with the kind of national community being established. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 585. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780821415191
ISBN
9780821415191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.56

Paperback. William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the great figures in literature, by turns poet, artist and visionary. This work includes the texts of the early prose tracts, "All Religions are One" and "There is No Natural Religion". It contains a representation of Blake's most significant paintings and designs. Series: Longman Annotated English Poets. Num Pages: 960 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1186.
Publisher
Longman
Number of pages
976
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
3rd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405832809
ISBN
9781405832809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; CFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226526225
ISBN
9780226526225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.66

Paperback. A student edition of Sarah Kane's seminal play with its uncompromising depiction of rape, torture and violence in a society at war with itself. The Introduction includes a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters and language. Editor(s): Urban, Ken. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 189 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408103852
ISBN
9781408103852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.40

Paperback. This authoritative text of Bleak House was the first to be established by a comparative study of all the surviving versions of Dickens' novel, incorporating evidence from the original manuscript and corrected proofs. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 1024 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 135 x 33. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Annotated.
Number of pages
1024
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393093322
ISBN
9780393093322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.39

paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 992 pages, frontispiece, original illustrations by 'Phiz', 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 672. Clean copy showing light shelf wear. Small section of pages at a slight angle where they have been misbound. Remains a good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0021693
ISBN
9780199536313
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 284 x 2. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226923529
ISBN
9780226923529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.76

hardcover. Ossian is a collection of epic poems that bring out the figure of the hero, Fingal.The Poems of Ossian achieved international success and have been compared with Homer's Iliad, inspiring many later writers such as Walter Scott and Goethe. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AFS; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906817558
ISBN
9781906817558
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.98

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