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Snake (PB) (2020)
9781501348716$14.95Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Feared and worshiped in equal measure, snakes have captured the imagination of poets, painters, and philosophers for centuries. From Ice Age cave... -
Signature (PB) (2020)
9781501353345$14.95Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Why do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? Signatures often require a witness-as if the scrawl itself is not enough...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$14.95Subtotal: -
Shipping Container (PB) (2016)
9781501303142$14.95Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there,... -
Seven Attitude Adjustments for Finding a Loving Man (PB) (2001)
9780743406017$19.95You know you're fine. Plus, you have a decent job, a nice place to live. You're smart and ambitious. So, where's your man? Because you're so well pulled together and without a partner, you may have developed an attitude toward men. Believe it or not,... -
Season of Migration to the North (PB) (2009)
9781590173022$14.95After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he... -
Revolutionary Petunias (PB) (1973)
9780156766203$10.95These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love even... -
Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology (PB) (1990)
9780452010451$15.95A unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that provides real evidence of the rich cultural history of black women in America. Black women's writing has finally emerged as one of the most dynamic fields of American literature. Here,...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$15.95Subtotal: -
Postcolonialism and Political Discourse in Chinua Achebe's Tetralogy (PB) (2021)
9781863351782$35.00The Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe, is an outstanding figure in modernAfrican literature whose works can be taken as an early literary attempt tomove toward de-colonization. What distinguishes Achebe's novels is the wayhe relies on notions of...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$35.00Subtotal: -
Postcolonialism and Political Discourse in Chinua Achebe's Tetralogy (HC) (2019)
9781863351775$40.00Qty in Cart: 0Price:$40.00Subtotal: -
Political Sign (PB) (2020)
9781501358104$14.95Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In an election year, political signs can be impossible to avoid. They're in front yards, on bumper stickers, and in some places you might never... -
Playing by the Rules: The Tales of Miles Grey (PB) (2020)
9781643702476$17.00The Tales Of Miles Grey goes deep into many real-life challenges faced in inner-city Brooklyn. Through the experiences of this young man trying to break free of his rough environment, light is shed on the impact fathers and mentors hold in becoming the... -
Out There (HC) (2002)
9780465057603$26.00With this appreciation of three very different black writers, novelist Darryl Pinckney reminds us that marginal or neglected literary figures have a lot to tell us about the history of a people who are always outsiders. Born in Jamaica in 1883, J. A... -
Our One-Way Street (PB) (2017)
9781630450458$18.95Poetry. OUR ONE-WAY STREET is a series of poetic snapshots of a working-class neighborhood and its quirky inhabitants. Schumejda zooms the lens in and out on herself as well as neighbors trying to make it through the day in hopes of a better tomorrow... -
Once (PB) (1976)
9780156687454$10.99This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College... -
On the Ruins of Modernity: New Chicago Renaissance from Wright to Fair (PB) (2012)
9781863359696$40.00Within a rich cultural and political context, Miller proposes that as the centuries turned and the nation became more diverse, the great Chicago Renaissances-especially the literary and cultural ones-never really ended. The nation's cities simply became...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$40.00Subtotal: -
Ocean (PB) (2020)
9781501348631$14.95Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles our...