Results for 'marlon james'

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  1. Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions)
    1. Wilson Harris

    Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions)

    'Magnificent' - Tsitsi Dangarembga

    The 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 ...

    € 11,95
  2. The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
    1. Adam Biles

    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

    € 17,95
  3. Swallowing a World
    1. Benjamin Bergholtz

    Swallowing a World

    Globalization and the Maximalist Novel

    Swallowing 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.

    € 60,95
  4. The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
    1. Adam Biles

    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

    € 27,50
  5. Letters to a Writer of Colour

    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

    € 27,50
  6. Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization
    1. Carol Bailey

    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.

    € 34,50
  7. Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization
    1. Carol Bailey

    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.

    € 166,50
  8. Constructing a Nervous System
    1. Margo Jefferson

    Constructing a Nervous System

    A Memoir

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and acclaimed author of Negroland boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art.

    € 17,95
  9. Grotesque Touch
    1. Amy King

    Grotesque Touch

    Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives

    Examines 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.

    € 38,95
  10. Grotesque Touch
    1. Amy King

    Grotesque Touch

    Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives

    Examines 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.

    € 105,50
  11. Mrs Caliban
    1. Rachel , Ingalls

    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
  12. Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

    Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

    On the Edge

    Bénédicte Ledent is Professor in the English Department of the University of Liège, Belgium.Evelyn O’Callaghan is Professor of West Indian Literature at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Daria Tunca is Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Liège, Belgium.

    € 70,95