Literature

‘I, Too’: marginalised American identities in poetry (part one)

  History and narrative are intricately knotted together: narrative is ‘essential to the business of historical explanation’[1]as it allows us to ‘fill in the gaps and provide a smooth flow of change’ in a history where there are otherwise ‘radical discontinuities’[2]. Although history contains multiple presumably contradictory narratives, modern appreciations show there is usually a […]

My 2018 Literature Journey

2018 was a year of immense change and personal growth, marking my entry into my first year at Durham University sixteen hours away from home, leaving both the school I had attended for seven years and the city I have lived in since birth. During the longest summer holiday I have ever experienced, I managed […]