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£19.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781642598407 | ISBN 10: 1642598402
“Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.” — Claudia Tate, from the introduction
Long out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Bl ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571373192 | ISBN 10: 0571373194
A short, staggering collection of essays from ‘one of the most remarkable people the Booker Prize has ever celebrated’ (New Statesman).
‘A woman’s defiant fight to write.‘ Observer
Being categorised as black and female ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800181328 | ISBN 10: 1800181329
'A beautiful love letter to the diaspora, Haramacy is an essential collection of essays that push the conversation forward on issues to do with visibility, mental health, race and class' Nikesh Shukla
'A superbly crafted collection of essays. Of ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784743703 | ISBN 10: 1784743704
** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**
"Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken"(Bernardine Evaristo)
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winnin ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008342654 | ISBN 10: 0008342652
An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane.
Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of tw ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781845234768 | ISBN 10: 1845234766
In this collection of interviews, Jacqueline Bishop is in conversation with eighteen female Jamaican writers, some of whom have emigrated from the island. This deeply intimate and personal encounter between the writer and artist, Bishop, and those sh ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529110883 | ISBN 10: 1529110882
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time.
‘Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—the way in wh ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571352050 | ISBN 10: 0571352057
Comic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction.
No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable—and much-loved—author. From social media to the ancient classics, from app ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780745339757 | ISBN 10: 0745339751
From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured in its articles and ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781471168956 | ISBN 10: 1471168956
*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*
Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life.
In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780525619772 | ISBN 10: 0525619771
Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives--but not everyone regularly sees themselves in the pages of a book. In this time ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911214519 | ISBN 10: 1911214519
Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize
Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection
A Guardian / Daily Telegraph Book of the Year
PBS Summer Recommendation
An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sk ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780995716223 | ISBN 10: 0995716226
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) described herself as 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York, she had her first poem published while still at school and her last the year she died of cancer. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language ... more
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£18.95 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780674976450 | ISBN 10: 0674976452
America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780143105992 | ISBN 10: 014310599x
A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century.
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive ant ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571328062 | ISBN 10: 0571328067
A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief.
With these pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and literature – many of which have become viral sensatio ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789350297117 | ISBN 10: 9350297116
From Bankimchandra Chatterjee to G.V. Desani to Vikram Seth, Indian writing in English has come a long way over the last hundred years. And Nilanjana Roy – voracious eater of books and sharpest of critics – has taken stock of it all.
On ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846559891 | ISBN 10: 1846559898
As a young student, internationally renowned author Ngugi wa Thiong’o found his voice as a playwright, journalist and novelist, writing his first, pivotal works just as the countries of East Africa were in the final throes of their independence str ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781608466399 | ISBN 10: 1608466396
Most literary critics take it for granted that mid-century African-American writers considered the Communist movement to be incapable of comprehending and responding to racial oppression. In this groundbreaking study, Cathy Bergin argues that i ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571319701 | ISBN 10: 057131970x
Hate skews reality even more than love.
In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi's acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father, readers ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781107618183 | ISBN 10: 1107618185
This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers and provocative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Black, gay, and gifted, he was hailed as a 'spokesman for the race', although ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781439911464 | ISBN 10: 1439911460
Unbought and Unbossed examines black womens literary and cultural production of the 1970s and early 1980s. Considering texts in the socio-cultural and historical moments of their production, Trimiko Melancon analyzes representations of black women t ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241146309 | ISBN 10: 0241146305
Discontent and its Civilizations is the essential first collection of non fiction from Mohsin Hamid. Discontent and its Civilizations collects the best of Mohsin Hamid's writing on subjects as diverse and wide-ranging as Pakistan; fatherhood; t ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781613747964 | ISBN 10: 1613747969
An educational and entertaining guide to sci-fi and fantasy within African American culture
2014 Locus Awards Finalist, Nonfiction Category
In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Wom ... more
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£35.95 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780813933245 | ISBN 10: 0813933242
Across the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In Characters of Blood, Celeste-Marie Bernier illuminates the ways in which six i ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781849431484 | ISBN 10: 1849431485
Includes the plays A Bitter Herb, The Far Side, Identity, Mary Seacole, Absolution, and Urban Afro-Saxons.
This second and sister volume to Hidden Gems showcases a further range of plays by Black British writers whose work reaches beyond the ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780220062 | ISBN 10: 1780220065
When Alice Walker grew up in the deep south of America, her family always kept chickens - for meat and for eggs - and her job was to chase down the Sunday dinner! In later life, when she settled in Mexico and was growing her own food, she realised ho ... more
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£23.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780822348290 | ISBN 10: 0822348292
In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellisons celebrated novel but also on his early radicalism and the relationship between ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141043616 | ISBN 10: 014104361x
The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship.
For the first ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141019468 | ISBN 10: 0141019468
How did George Eliot's love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780822347781 | ISBN 10: 0822347784
Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time.
Like her poetry, Sanchezs plays voice her critiqu ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780719078330 | ISBN 10: 0719078334
This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781592216758 | ISBN 10: 1592216757
Excising the Spirit: A Literary Analysis of Female Circumcision delves into one of the most complex issues of the modern era, female circumcision, or female genital mutilation. The issue of female circumcision catapulted into the mainstream after the ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781592217113 | ISBN 10: 1592217117
Constructing Incest Stories: Black Womens Voices in Fact and Fiction provides a highly original perspective on incest by an illuminating fusion of social science research and literary analysis.
The analysis of the process of the constructi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847080820 | ISBN 10: 1847080820
Ziauddin Sardar, whose acclaimed Desperately Seeking Paradise demystified Islam, gives his humane, sharp and witty perspective on the experience of being a British Asian.
Sardar travels to the main Asian communities in the UK, to Leicester and Bi ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844672332 | ISBN 10: 1844672336
Basrayatha is a literary tribute by author Muhammad Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq. Just as a citys inhabitants differ from outsiders through their knowledge of its streets and stories, so ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099501527 | ISBN 10: 009950152x
In June 2003 Xinran began writing about China for her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of topics from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781595580689 | ISBN 10: 1595580689
Black, opinionated, and from a working-class background, Gary Younge is not your typical foreign correspondent. Yet, in three years working for The Guardian newspaper in New York, Younge has aquired a transatlantic reputation as one of the most thoug ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781870518062 | ISBN 10: 1870518063
Write Black, Write British examines the new Black British writers in Britain, writing about Britain from a specific British perspective - inscribed in Black. This collection of essays puts the work of British born writers of African and Caribbean par ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780571224043 | ISBN 10: 0571224040
Hanif Kureishi offers a remarkable insight into the birth of a writer - himself - through this memoir that conjures up a family story of how he found his own literary calling from the ashes of his father's attempts to be a writer. The wellspring of ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780253216076 | ISBN 10: 0253216079
This groundbreaking study explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. Christa Schwarz focuses on Counte Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Richard Bruce Nugent and explores these ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780865438989 | ISBN 10: 0865438986
In her book, Susan Arndt discusses and defines the nature of African feminism and African-feminist literatures. Taking account of African-feminist literatures heterogeneity as well, in a second step its varieties are discussed and grouped into a cla ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780413762405 | ISBN 10: 0413762408
In south side Chicago, Walter Lee, a black chauffeur, dreams of a better life, and hopes to use his father's life insurance money to open a liquor store. His mother, who rejects the liquor business, uses some of the money to secure a proper house for ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780679749868 | ISBN 10: 0679749861
With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America's ongoing racial debate.
Cornel West is at the forefront of ... more
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