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Brent Hayes Edwards Translator, Author & Editor

Brent Hayes Edwards is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

The Souls of Black Folk cover

The Souls of Black Folk

W E B Du Bois - Paperback

£8.99

The Black Flame Trilogy: Book Two, Mansart Builds a School(The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) cover

The Black Flame Trilogy: Book Two, Mansart Builds a School(The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

2 authors - Paperback

£20.99

The Black Flame Trilogy: Book Three, Worlds of Color (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) cover

The Black Flame Trilogy: Book Three, Worlds of Color (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

2 authors - Paperback

£20.99

Phantom Africa cover

Phantom Africa

Michel Leiris - Hardback

£45.00

Uptown Conversation cover

Uptown Conversation

3 contributors - Hardback

£100.00

Phantom Africa cover

Phantom Africa

Michel Leiris - Paperback

£35.00

Uptown Conversation cover

Uptown Conversation

3 contributors - Paperback

£30.00

The Practice of Diaspora cover

The Practice of Diaspora

Brent Hayes Edwards - Paperback

£35.95

Epistrophies cover

Epistrophies

Brent Hayes Edwards - Hardback

£35.95

Ideas of Africa cover

Ideas of Africa

4 authors - Hardback

£40.00