Literature

Why I Chose to Study English Literature at Durham

Anna Treherne, a fresher, tells us about the reasons she chose to come to Durham to study English!

Wide Sargasso Sea: a postcolonial reading (part one)

The postcolonial novel deals implicitly and explicitly with ‘the ideas of nation and nationhood’, regarding the struggle of nations after colonial control is relinquished to regain a sense of their own nation and for the population a sense of nationhood. However, Wide Sargasso Sea, though a postcolonial novel, is much more complex in terms of […]