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Production of Local Knowledge History and Politics in the Work of Rene Zavaleta Mercado
ISBN: HB: 9780857423344, Seagull Books, July 2021
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume presents a comprehensive examination of the work of Rene Zavaleta Mercado (1939-1984), the most notable Bolivian political thinker of the twentieth century. While Zavaleta did not live to see the triumph of the indigenous social movements...
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£30,00
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Performing Stories Narrative as Performance
ISBN: PB: 9780857428462, Seagull Books, May 2021
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
Retelling performances, collecting things, reading traces, mapping memories, gaming autobiographies: in European and Anglo-American theater since the turn of the millennium, a range of new nonliterary narrative practices such as these have taken root...
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£34,99
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Professional Wrestling Politics and Populism
ISBN: PB: 9780857427946, Seagull Books, March 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of working contemporary events into storylines and commenting upon cultural and military conflicts, profession...
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£35,00
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Paper Collage
ISBN: PB: 9780857428431, ISBN: HB: 9780857422293, Seagull Books, March 2021
200 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm
Should you find yourself strolling along the coastal heights of Douarnenez, a Brittany town near the westernmost point of continental France, you would do well to look out for a signpost marked, "Georges Perros (1923-1978) 'Dazzled by the sea'". Perr...
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£9,99
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£19,00
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Privy Portrait
ISBN: PB: 9780857428424, ISBN: HB: 9780857421661, Seagull Books, March 2021
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's "Privy Portrait" has fallen on hard times. His wife and young daughter have abandoned him, he has no work or prospects, he's blind in one eye, and he must move into a horribly tiny apartment with his only possess...
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£11,99
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£18,00
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Patches of Sunlight, Or of Shadow Safeguarded Notes, 1952-2005
ISBN: HB: 9780857427915, Seagull Books, December 2020
342 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Philippe Jaccottet's newest work follows in some ways the approach of "Seedtime", his recent two-volume collection of notebooks. Similarly comprising on-the-spot jottings, philosophical reflections, literary commentary, dream narratives and sundry "n...
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£21,99
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Parasite
ISBN: HB: 9780857427403, Seagull Books, November 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Marked by powerful and evocative prose, Ferenc Barnas's novel tells the fascinating story of a young man's journey through his strange obsessions towards possible recovery. The unnamed narrator is the parasite, feeding off others' ailments, but he is...
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£23,99
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Porcelain Poem on the Downfall of My City
ISBN: HB: 9780857427816, Seagull Books, November 2020
96 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm, 5 halftones
"Porcelain" is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grunbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at...
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£12,99
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Passage to the Plaza
ISBN: HB: 9780857427700, Seagull Books, February 2020
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In Bab Al-Saha, a quarter of Nablus, Palestine, sits a house of ill repute. In it lives Nuzha, a young woman ostracized from and shamed by her community. When the Intifada breaks out, Nuzha's abode unexpectedly becomes a sanctuary for those in the qu...
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£18,99
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Present Hour
ISBN: PB: 9780857427533, ISBN: HB: 9780857421630, Seagull Books, February 2020
112 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
From the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has been considered the most important and influential French poet since World War II. A prolific writer, critic, and translator, Bonnefoy continues to compose groundbreaking new work sixt...
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£16,00
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