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The Origin Of Others (Hardcover): Toni Morrison The Origin Of Others (Hardcover)
Toni Morrison; Foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates 3
R569 R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Save R120 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity in The Origin Of Others.

In her search for answers, the novelist considers her own memories as well as history, politics, and especially literature. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Camara Laye are among the authors she examines. Readers of Morrison's fiction will welcome her discussions of some of her most celebrated books: Beloved, Paradise, and A Mercy. Morrison also writes about nineteenth-century literary efforts to romance slavery, contrasting them with the scientific racism of Samuel Cartwright and the banal diaries of the plantation overseer and slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood. She looks at configurations of blackness, notions of racial purity, and the ways in which literature employs skin colour to reveal character or drive narrative.

Expanding the scope of her concern, she also addresses globalization and the mass movement of peoples in this century. National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Morrison's most personal work of nonfiction to date.

Fighting And Writing - The Rhodesian Army War And Postwar (Paperback): Luise White Fighting And Writing - The Rhodesian Army War And Postwar (Paperback)
Luise White 1
R280 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R61 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia during the 1964–1979 Zimbabwean liberation struggle.

In the memoirs of white soldiers fighting to defend white minority rule in Africa long after other countries were independent, the author finds a robust and contentious conversation about race, difference, and the war itself. These are writings by men who were ambivalent conscripts, generally aware of the futility of their fight—not brutal pawns flawlessly executing the orders and parroting the rhetoric of a racist regime. Moreover, most of these men insisted that the most important aspects of fighting a guerrilla war—tracking and hunting, knowledge of the land and of the ways of African society—were learned from black playmates in idealized rural childhoods.

In these memoirs, African guerrillas never lost their association with the wild, even as white soldiers boasted of bringing Africans into the intimate spaces of regiment and regime.

Undoing Apartheid (Paperback): Premesh Lalu Undoing Apartheid (Paperback)
Premesh Lalu
R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Post-apartheid South Africa still struggles to overcome the past, not just because the material conditions of apartheid linger but because the intellectual conditions it created have not been thoroughly dismantled. The system of 'petty apartheid', which controlled the minutia of everyday life, became a means of dragooning human beings into adapting to increasingly mechanized forms of life that stifle desire and creative endeavour. As a result, apartheid is incessantly repeated in the struggle to move beyond it.

In Undoing Apartheid, Premesh Lalu argues that only an aesthetic education can lead to a future beyond apartheid. To find ways to escape the vicious cycle, he traces the patterns created by three theatrical works by William Kentridge, Jane Taylor, and the Handspring Puppet Company – Faustus in Africa, Woyzeck on the Highveld, and Ubu and the Truth Commission – which coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of apartheid.

Through the analysis of these works, Lalu uncovers the roots of modern thinking about race and affirms the need to revitalize a post-apartheid reconciliation endowed with truth – if only to keep alive the rhyme of hope and history.

I Write The Yawning Void - Selected Essays Of Sindiwe Magona (Paperback): Sindiwe Magona I Write The Yawning Void - Selected Essays Of Sindiwe Magona (Paperback)
Sindiwe Magona; Compiled by Renée Schatteman
R350 R273 Discovery Miles 2 730 Save R77 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

These essays bring to life many facets of Magona’s personal history, her deepest convictions, love for her country and belief in her ability to activate change. They are a meaningful supplement to her fictional works, while offering insightful responses to the conditions that inspired them.

Sindiwe Magona is a celebrated South African writer, storyteller and motivational speaker known mainly for her autobiographies, biographies, novels, short stories, poetry and children’s books. I Write the Yawning Void is a collection of essays that highlight her engagement with writing that span the transition from apartheid to the post-apartheid period and addresses themes such as HIV/Aids, language and culture, home and belonging.

Magona worked as a teacher, domestic worker and spent two decades working for the United Nations in the United States of America. She has received many awards for her fearless writing ‘truth to power’. Her written work is often informed by her lived experience of being a black woman resisting subjugation and poverty.

These essays bring to life many facets of Magona’s personal history as well as her deepest convictions, her love for her country and despair at the problems that continue to plague it, and her belief in her ability to activate change. They demonstrate Magona’s engaging storytelling and mastery of the essay form which serve as meaningful supplements to her fictional works, while simultaneously offering insightful responses to the conditions that inspired them.

The Secret Of The Morisco (Paperback): Christiaan James The Secret Of The Morisco (Paperback)
Christiaan James
R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Lucidity - Essays in Honour of Alison Finch (Hardcover): Ian James, Emma Wilson Lucidity - Essays in Honour of Alison Finch (Hardcover)
Ian James, Emma Wilson
R2,221 R1,796 Discovery Miles 17 960 Save R425 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of essays addresses the question of lucidity as a thematic in literature and film but also as a quality of both expression and insight in literary criticism and critical thought more generally. The essays offer treatments of lucidity in itself and in relation to its opposites, forms of obscurity and darkness. They offer attention to problems of philosophical thought and reason, to questions of literary and poetic form, and of photographic and filmic contemplation. Ranging from engagements with early modern writing through to more recent material the contributions focus in particular on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French prose and poetry, the field which has been the predominant focus of Alison Finch's critical writing. They are written as tributes to the distinctively lucid insights of her work and to the breadth and clarity of its intellectual engagement.

To The Moon And Back (Paperback): Colleen Lombard To The Moon And Back (Paperback)
Colleen Lombard
R150 R117 Discovery Miles 1 170 Save R33 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days
The Funny Stuff - The Official P. J. O'Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia (Hardcover): P.J O'Rourke The Funny Stuff - The Official P. J. O'Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia (Hardcover)
P.J O'Rourke
R661 R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Save R111 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A compendium of quotes and riffs by P.J. O'Rourke on subjects ranging from government ("Giving money and power to politicians is like giving car keys and whiskey to teenage boys") to fishing ("a sport invented by insects and you are the bait") to apps ("we need a no-app app--let's call it a nap") to be published on what would have been his 75th birthday. "P. J. O'Rourke was the funniest writer of his generation, one of the smartest and one of the most prolific. Now that he belongs to the ages, P.J. takes his rightful place along with Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker in the Pantheon of Quote Gods."--Christopher Buckley from his introduction When The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations was published in 1994, P. J. O'Rourke had more entries than any living writer. And he kept writing funny stuff for another 28 years. Now, for the first time, the best material is collected in one volume. Edited by his longtime friend and member of the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame Terry McDonell, THE FUNNY STUFF is arranged in six sections, organized by subject in alphabetical order from Agriculture to Xenophobia. From his earliest days at the National Lampoon in the 1970s, through his classic reporting for Rolling Stone in the 80s and 90s to his post-Trump, pandemic, new media observations of recent years, P.J. produced incisive, amusing copy. Not only did P.J. write memorable one-liners, he also meticulously constructed riffs that built to a crescendo of hilarity and outrage--and are still being quoted years later. His prose has the electric verbal energy of Tom Wolfe or Hunter Thompson, but P.J. is more flat out funny. And through it all comes his clear-eyed take on politics, economics, human nature--and fun. THE FUNNY STUFF is a book for P.J. fans to devour but also a book that will bring new readers and stand as testament to one of the truly original American writers of the last 50 years.

John Milton: Twentieth Century Perspectives (Hardcover): Martin Evans John Milton: Twentieth Century Perspectives (Hardcover)
Martin Evans
R16,366 R12,786 Discovery Miles 127 860 Save R3,580 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this unique five-volume set, students will encounter the twentieth century's most influential and representative Milton scholarship. Treating his life, as well as the full scope of his poetry and prose works, the thematically organized papers have been selected and arranged by a leading Milton scholar with an eye toward the key issues covered in virtually any course on the poet and his writings.
Available as a full set or individually, the volumes include:
* Vol. 1: " The Man and the Author"
352 pp * [0-415-94047-8]
* Vol. 2: "The" "Early Poems"
352 pp * [0-415-94048-6]
* Vol. 3: "Prose"
352 pp * [0-415-94049-4]
* Vol. 4: "Paradise Lost"
352 pp * [0-415-94050-8]
* Vol. 5: "Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes"
352 pp * [0-415-94051-6]

Dante: The Critical Complex (Hardcover): Richard Lansing Dante: The Critical Complex (Hardcover)
Richard Lansing
R31,356 Discovery Miles 313 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Republic of Detours - How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America (Paperback): Scott Borchert Republic of Detours - How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America (Paperback)
Scott Borchert
R526 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R89 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In the Land of the Cyclops - Essays (Paperback): Karl Ove Knausgaard In the Land of the Cyclops - Essays (Paperback)
Karl Ove Knausgaard; Translated by Martin Aitken, Ingvild Burkey, Damion Searls
R554 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R86 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Believer, Issue 139 - March/April 2022 (Paperback): Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Beverly Rogers The Believer, Issue 139 - March/April 2022 (Paperback)
Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Beverly Rogers
R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Believer, a ten-time National Magazine Award finalist, is a literature, arts, and culture magazine published by the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, and based in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Since 2003, The Believer has published writers that take the long view, and work that's too unusual or experimental for mainstream outlets. In each issue, readers will find journalism, essays, intimate interviews, an expansive comics section, poetry, timely and untimely reviews, and on occasion, delightful and unexpected bonus items. The Believer is edited by: Hayden Bennett, Vera Blossom, Camille Bromley, Jericho Brown, Daniel Gumbiner, Niela Orr, Tamar Peterson, Kristen Radtke, Ross Simonini, Summer Thomad, and James Yeh. The Believer is edited by a group of novelists, poets, artists, columnists, critics, regular readers of the Chicago Manual of Style, and aficionados of print and digital literature. The editors are far-flung, curious, and interested in the kinds of things that contributors are passionate about. Our regular columnists are Nick Hornby and Peter Orner. Each issue of the magazine is perfect-bound and printed by friendly Canadians on recycled, acid-free, heavy-stock paper and suitable for archiving, framing, or reading in the tub. Questions? Please give us a call: (866) 930-0264 or reach us by email: [email protected].

Reza De Wet: 'n Huldiging - Die Dramaturg As Dromer (Afrikaans, Paperback): Temple Hauptfleisch, Marisa Keuris Reza De Wet: 'n Huldiging - Die Dramaturg As Dromer (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Temple Hauptfleisch, Marisa Keuris
R191 Discovery Miles 1 910 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
British Literature (Teacher Guide) - Cultural Influences of Early to Contemporary Voices (Paperback): James Stobaugh British Literature (Teacher Guide) - Cultural Influences of Early to Contemporary Voices (Paperback)
James Stobaugh
R310 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R55 (18%) In Stock

An easy-to-use teacher's guide outlines student objectives with each chapter, providing the answers to the assignments and weekly exercises. The final lesson of the week includes both the exam, covering insights on the week's chapter, as well as essays developed through the course of that week's study, chosen by the educator and student to personalize the coursework for the individual learner.

Burning Man - The Trials of D. H. Lawrence (Paperback): Frances Wilson Burning Man - The Trials of D. H. Lawrence (Paperback)
Frances Wilson
R606 R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Save R89 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Op kommando met Steyn en de Wet - Oorlogsherinneringe van lt.kol. F.F. Pienaar (Afrikaans, Hardcover): F.F. Pienaar Op kommando met Steyn en de Wet - Oorlogsherinneringe van lt.kol. F.F. Pienaar (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
F.F. Pienaar; Translated by Jan Picard
R163 Discovery Miles 1 630 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

In 1902 het 'n jong Boeretelegrafis en offisier, Filip Pienaar, uit ballingskap in Portugal een van die eerste boeke oor die Boereoorlog geskryf: With Steyn and de Wet. 'n Maand na publikasie is die boek verban – waarskynlik vanwee verwysings in die boek na die juiste feite oor die omstrede figuur van generaal F.J. Pienaar, asook leidrade oor wat met die sogenaamde "Krugergoud" kon gebeur het. Hierdie interessante relaas is die vroee voorgeskiedenis en wat met die skrywer in die oorlog en in ballingskap in Portugal gebeur het.

Autoportrait (Hardcover): Jesse Ball Autoportrait (Hardcover)
Jesse Ball
R518 R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Save R90 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Dictionary People - The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback): Sarah Ogilvie The Dictionary People - The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
Sarah Ogilvie
R380 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R83 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the project, as far as the letter T. But the Dictionary didn't just belong to the experts; it relied on contributions from members of the public. By the time it was finished in 1928 its 414,825 entries had been crowdsourced from a surprising and diverse group of people, from archaeologists and astronomers to murderers, naturists, novelists, pornographers, queer couples, suffragists, vicars and vegetarians. Lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie dives deep into previously untapped archives to tell a people's history of the OED. She traces the lives of thousands of contributors who defined the English language, from the eccentric autodidacts to the family groups who made word-collection their passion. With generosity and brio, Ogilvie reveals, for the first time, the full story of the making of one of the most famous books in the world - and celebrates to sparkling effect the extraordinary efforts of the Dictionary People.

Austen Years - A Memoir in Five Novels (Paperback): Rachel Cohen Austen Years - A Memoir in Five Novels (Paperback)
Rachel Cohen
R445 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Agrip Af Noregskonungasogum (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): M. J Driscoll Agrip Af Noregskonungasogum (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
M. J Driscoll
R362 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Save R39 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
No Document (Paperback): Anwen Crawford No Document (Paperback)
Anwen Crawford
R410 R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo... A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo (Paperback)
George Saunders
R335 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R67 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK OF 2021 'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly enthusiastic companion' Guardian Summer Reading Picks 2021 'This book is a delight, and it's about delight too. How necessary, at our particular moment' Tessa Hadley ________________ From the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, "We're going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn't fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art-namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?" He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

Character - The History of a Cultural Obsession (Paperback): Marjorie Garber Character - The History of a Cultural Obsession (Paperback)
Marjorie Garber
R578 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R84 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Never Sleep Alone (Paperback, Original ed.): Alex Schiller Never Sleep Alone (Paperback, Original ed.)
Alex Schiller
R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"In order to find The One, you must become The One." Dr. Alex Schiller doles out hilarious yet profoundly wise dating advice in her new sex and dating manual, which will transform you into an Exceptional Individual capable of seducing everyone you meet."My name is Dr. Alex Schiller and I Never Sleep Alone. Unless I want to. Man or woman, rich or poor, teenage or elderly--NSA will transform YOU into The One that everyone wants..." For the past three years in New York City, Dr. Alex (not a real doctor) has been performing her hit comedy and dating show "Never Sleep Alone" to sold out audiences, helping thousands of people from all over the world transform themselves and fulfill their sociosexual desires. Now, with her signature blend of outrageous humor and profound wisdom, the celebrated guru has created an interactive sex and dating guide that takes you on a fantastic journey of exciting new adventures, self-discovery, and transformation. With her nine NSA Principles, her compulsively quotable NSA Truths, and her interactive NSA Challenges, Dr. Alex inspires us all to laugh at ourselves, to make real human connections, and, most importantly, to Never Sleep Alone. Unless we want to.

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