The Uses of Literacy
10 best books like The Uses of Literacy (Richard Hoggart): Orientalism, Snow, Glass, Apples, Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives, The Lonely Londoners, Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order, Beasts in My Belfry, Les Bonnes, Antigonick, The Tent, Crave
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.
In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism"...
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Oh my! Snow, Glass, Apples is some twisted, dark and creepy fairytale retelling of Snow White, lovely and dear Snow White. In this short story written by the critically acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, she is pure and innocent no more. Better watch out: the mask she wears might...
| Author | Carolyn Steedman |
| ISBN | 0813512581 |
There are lives, real lives, and there are the theories that explain them. Partly autobiographical, taking a mother and her daughter; two working-class childhoods (Burnley in the 1920s, South London in the 1950s) and trying to find a place for their stories in history and politics, in psychoanalysis...
| Author | Sam Selvon |
| ISBN | 0582642647 |
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant life in London in the 1950s.
'His Lonely Londoners has acquired a classic status since it appeared in 1956 as the definitive novel about London's West Indians.' — Financial Times
'The...
| Author | Stuart Hall |
| ISBN | 0333220617 |
How and why did an activity familiar in London streets as long ago as the 1860s come to be described by the British press and police in August 1972 as ‘a frightening new strain of crime’? And if mugging—for this is the crime in question—was new in 1972, how could comparative statistics be produced...
| Author | Gerald Durrell |
| ISBN | 0006341616 |
A hilarious record that no Durrell fan will want to miss. - Sunday Telegraph
If you looked you would think that his mind was full of beautiful and poetic thoughts...A ball of food would make its appearance at the base of the long neck and would travel upwards with all the majesty of a department...
| Author | Jean Genet |
| ISBN | 2070412814 |
Genet a choisi comme personnages « Les Bonnes ». Au début de la pièce, deux sueurs, Claire et Solange, seules dans la chambre de Madame, « d'une dame un peu cocotte et un peu bourgeoise » , pendant son absence, jouent pour elles, et entre elles, des variations sur le thème des Bonnes et de Madame....
| Author | Anne Carson |
| ISBN | 0811219577 |
Antigonick is a translation of Sophokle's Antigone only in the loosest sense – with significant changes and metatextual additions to the original, an extra character, and illustrations with interpretations left open to the reader, it could easily be considered a different work altogether.
With...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385516681 |
One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal,...
| Author | Sarah Kane |
| ISBN | 0413728803 |
Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire.
Produced by Paines Plough and Bright Ltd (Guy Chapman and Paul Spyker), Crave premiered at the Traverse Theatre for the 1998 Edinburgh Festival....
