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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Analyzing the trends and developments of African American historical fiction written by women in the twentieth century, Nunes' approach addresses the relationship between history and literature, reworking the historical record from the point of view of the silenced female and giving origin to an unprecedented narrative of the American experience. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363718
- ISBN
- 9781137363718
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€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Nunes' approach to the texts aims at emphasizing the narrative and thematic achievements of individual novels set in the context of the main trends and developments of the contemporary African American historical novel. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBJK; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349294497
- ISBN
- 9781349294497
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardback. Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. This title argues that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 748.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789965
- ISBN
- 9780226789965
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Condition: New
€ 94.22€ 78.69
€ 94.22
€ 78.69
Paperback. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, this title argues that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions and religions of Africa and the African diaspora along the way. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 617.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789972
- ISBN
- 9780226789972
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€ 35.99€ 28.64
€ 35.99
€ 28.64
Paperback. Considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926810
- ISBN
- 9780813926810
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Condition: New
€ 34.37
€ 34.37
Hardcover. Proposing the novel concept of the "literary NGO," this study combines interviews with contemporary East African writers with an analysis of their professional activities and the cultural funding sector to make an original contribution to African literary criticism and cultural studies. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; JFC; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334046
- ISBN
- 9781137334046
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. Series: African Literature Today. 192 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Emenyonu, Ernest N. How have African writers addressed the issue of war and its impact across the continent?. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; DSBH. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 14. Weight: 276.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780852555712
- ISBN
- 9780852555712
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.75
€ 26.99
€ 26.75
Paperback. * The first anthology of African literary criticism * Brings together key texts that are otherwise hard to locate * Covers all genres and critical schools * Provides the intellectual context for understanding African literature * Facilitates the future development of African literary criticism. Editor(s): Olaniyan, Tejumola; Quayson, Ato. Num Pages: 792 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 172 x 247 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1366.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 792
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405112017
- ISBN
- 9781405112017
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Condition: New
€ 53.44
€ 53.44
Hardcover. * The first anthology of African literary criticism * Brings together key texts that are otherwise hard to locate * Covers all genres and critical schools * Provides the intellectual context for understanding African literature * Facilitates the future development of African literary criticism. Editor(s): Olaniyan, Tejumola; Quayson, Ato. Num Pages: 800 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 181 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405112000
- ISBN
- 9781405112000
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Condition: New
€ 144.52
€ 144.52
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
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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
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Condition: New
€ 78.90€ 61.13
€ 78.90
€ 61.13
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
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Condition: New
€ 27.20
€ 27.20
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
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.48
€ 40.99
€ 31.48
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
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Condition: New
€ 105.46
€ 105.46
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
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
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
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Condition: New
€ 130.02
€ 130.02
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
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Condition: New
€ 145.65
€ 145.65
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
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Condition: New
€ 129.31
€ 129.31
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
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Condition: New
€ 64.95
€ 64.95
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
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.08
€ 34.99
€ 28.08
paperback. Provides the poets' personal glimpses into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. This book features translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and after World War II who chart the sheer ordinariness through which cataclysm is experienced, and by which life is cruelly shattered. Series: Facing Pages. Num Pages: 184 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691127798
- ISBN
- 9780691127798
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.47
€ 26.99
€ 20.47
Hardback. A magisterial survey of the ways in which postwar Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish independence. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781786693228
- ISBN
- 9781786693228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.50
€ 14.50
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501707575
- ISBN
- 9781501707575
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Condition: New
€ 70.69
€ 70.69
Paperback. Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) is best known to Anglophone readers as the author of A Hero of Our Time, whereas among Russian readers his poetry is equally cherished. Lermontov was of Scottish descent, and this bilingual volume celebrates his bicentenary with new translations by 14 translator-poets, mostly Scottish. Editor(s): France, Peter; Marsack, Robyn. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847772756
- ISBN
- 9781847772756
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.27
€ 17.99
€ 14.27