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Black & Asian Writers & Literature -

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Loud Black Girls : 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What
    Loud Black Girls : 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next? - by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinene (Editors)

    £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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  • Cover image of book Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde
    Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems - by Audre Lorde

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Various writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates
    The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers - by Various writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
    The Origin of Others - by Toni Morrison

    £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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    'Bitter with the Past but Sweet with the Dream': Communism in the African American Imaginary - by Cathy Bergin

    £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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  • Cover image of book Love + Hate: Stories and Essays by Hanif Kureishi
    Love + Hate: Stories and Essays - by Hanif Kureishi

    £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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  • Cover image of book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack
    Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture - by Ytasha L. Womack

    £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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  • Cover image of book Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination by Celeste-Marie Bernier
    Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination - by Celeste-Marie Bernier

    £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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  • Cover image of book Hidden Gems Volume Two: Contemporary Black British Plays by Deirdre Osborne (Editor)
    Hidden Gems Volume Two: Contemporary Black British Plays - by Deirdre Osborne (Editor)

    £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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