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Results for 'marlon james'
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Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions)
'Magnificent' - Tsitsi DangarembgaThe visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ...'My new all time favourite book ... As their journey into the interior - their own hearts of darkness - deepens, it assumes a spiritual dimension, guiding them towards a new destination: the Palace of the Peacock ...
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Kintu
The year is 1750. As he makes his way to the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom, Kintu Kidda unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. As the centuries pass, the tale moves down the bloodline, exploring the lives of four of Kintu Kidda's descendants. Although the family members all have their own stories and live in very different circumstances, they are united by one thing - the struggle to break free from the curse and escape the burden of their family's past.Blending Ganda oral tradition, myth, folktale and history, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has brought to life an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters to produce a powerful epic - a modern classic.
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The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company bookshop and the best writers of our time
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Swallowing a World
Globalization and the Maximalist NovelSwallowing a World offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it’s typically cast as a (white, male) genre of U.S. fiction, maximalism, Benjamin Bergholtz argues, is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own right.
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The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company bookshop and the best writers of our time
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Letters to a Writer of Colour
A whip-smart collection of essays. I read parts of it with the joy of recognition and other parts with the astonishment of revelation
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Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization
Theorizes the city as a generative, ‘semicircular’ social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analysed in this volume configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting.
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Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization
Theorizes the city as a generative, ‘semicircular’ social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analysed in this volume configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting.
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Constructing a Nervous System
A MemoirThe Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and acclaimed author of Negroland boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art.
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Grotesque Touch
Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean NarrativesExamines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Amy King's work goes beyond any other study to date to examine the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, ability, and nationality in US and Caribbean depictions of violence between women in the wake of slavery.
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Grotesque Touch
Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean NarrativesExamines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Amy King's work goes beyond any other study to date to examine the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, ability, and nationality in US and Caribbean depictions of violence between women in the wake of slavery.
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Mrs Caliban
Rachel Ingalls was born in Boston in 1940. She spent time in Germany before studying at Radcliffe College, and moved to England in 1965, where she lived for the rest of her life. Her debut novel, Theft (1970), won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and her novella Mrs Caliban (1982) was named one of the 20 best American novels since World War Two by the British Book Marketing Council. Over half a century, Ingalls wrote 11 story collections and novellas - all published by Faber - to great acclaim, but remains relatively unknown. She died in 2019 after a revival of interest in her work.
€ 13,00