The aim of this thesis is to analyse the changing representation of African women - specifically Igbo women- in postcolonial Nigeria through an in depth reading of Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen (1974) and Chinua ...

This study argues that there is a gradual evolution of the treatment of trauma and trauma coping strategies in Grace Nichols’s I is a Long Memoried Woman (1983), The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984), Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy ...

Late Elizabethan society was marked with the growing discontent about socio-economic failures resulting from the failure of crops, high inflation and riots. The scarcity of financial resources of the royal patronage led ...

A close look into utopian fiction, a narrative born out of the search for a better state of existence, shows that perfection and freedom are merely the appearances; these texts reveal a society that is controlled and ...

The fourteenth century was a period of transformation, in which the social, political, economic and cultural changes led to changes in the social hierarchy of medieval England. These changes also influenced the way medieval ...

For the Irish, the Celtic Tiger period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s was very influential in terms of the redefinition of the Irish identity which was already affected by the changing social, economic and political ...

While her early plays classify Winsome Pinnock as a Black British dramatist, she prefers racially ambiguous characters in her second phase plays problematising the representation of blackness as well as whiteness and ...

The fourteenth century was a period of transformation, in which the social, political, economic and cultural changes led to changes in the social hierarchy of medieval England. These changes also influenced the way medieval ...

The aim of this thesis is to analyse mythmaking in Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides (1969) and Death and the King’s Horseman (1975) using Carl Gustav Jung’s archetypal theory. These plays reflect the socio-political ...

This thesis aims to form a poetics of contemporary British science poetry based on the poems of Edwin Morgan, Robert Crawford and David Morley whose poems make original use of science and technology abundantly. Although a ...