Slave Old Man
By: Patrick Chamoiseau
3.89
Format: 154 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most innovative and subversive novelists writing in French, a "writer of exceptiona…
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1. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith
4.10
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural … read more
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"A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle."-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires p…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of desp…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
". . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre d…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
2. Goblin Market
By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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3. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
By: Angela Y. Davis , Maryse Condé , Richard Philcox
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contempo… read more
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4. The Fever Chart: Three Short Visions of the Middle East
By: Naomi Wallace
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
"Naomi Wallace commits the unpardonable sin of being partisan, and, the darkness and harshness of h… read more
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5. Ghost World
By: Daniel Clowes
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ghost Worldhas become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire… read more
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6. Migritude
By: Shailja Patel
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
The U.S. debut of internationally acclaimed poet and performance artist Shailja Patel, Migritudeis … read more
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7. Here
By: Richard McGuire
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hereis Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same n… read more
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8. Pandora
By: Henry James
4.12
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
Henry James (1843 - 1916) was one of the leaders in the school of realism in fiction. He is known f… read more
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9. Paradise
By: Toni Morrison
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary… read more
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10. A Tempest
By: Aimé Césaire , Richard Miller
3.87
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
Cesaire's rich and insightful adaptation of The Tempestdraws on contemporary Caribbean society, the… read more
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11. Baba Yaga's Assistant
By: Emily Carroll , Marika McCoola
3.88
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
ASSISTANT WANTED ASAP Must have skills in hauling, obeying orders, cooking, and cleaning. Magical … read more
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"Naughty children have to be protected. Even if it's just from themselves."-Emily Carroll, Baba Yaga's Assistant
12. The Aspern Papers
By: Henry James
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this classic 1888 novella, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest to acquire some let… read more
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13. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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14. Incognegro
By: Mat Johnson , Warren Pleece
4.48
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the early 20th century, when lynchings were commonplace in the American South, a few brave repor… read more
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15. Into the Interior
By: Michelle Cliff
3.44
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In her previous novels, Michelle Cliff explored potent themes of colonialism, race, myth, and ident… read more
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16. Nothing's Mat
By: Erna Brodber
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Nothing’s Mat is told by a black British teenager – “every black girl” – for she has no name until … read more
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17. Virgin Soil
By: George Egerton
4.35
Format: None pages, None
Seventeen-year-old Flo leaves home to take up married life with Philip, her husband. Five years lat… read more
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18. Slave Old Man
By: Patrick Chamoiseau
3.89
Format: 154 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most innovative and subversive novelists writing in French, a "writer of exceptiona… read more
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19. Romance in Marseille (Penguin Classics)
By: Claude McKay
3.60
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics… read more
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20. The Ardent Swarm
By: Yamen Manai
4.10
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of… read more
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"A God that could still console him for the cruelty of man through the gentleness of his bees."-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm
"Most of them hadn’t even chosen their spouses, and now they were meant to choose who would govern them."-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm
21. Maroon Choreography (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
By: fahima ife
4.22
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In Maroon Choreography fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic af… read more
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