Browsing English by Author "Boynton, T. J."
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Intersectional postcolonial identities: Water and movement in Shire and Walcott
Cullinan, Dillon James (Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)Using Kimberlé Crenshaw's concept of intersectional identity as foundational research, this paper examines the postcolonial poetry of Warsan Shire and Derek Walcott and analyzes their use of the image of water. The paper ... -
The man's a man if he is black: Conrad, modernism, and race (Again)
Boynton, T. J. (Indiana University Press, 2021-06)Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" has played a major role in discussions of modernism's relationship to both race and colonialism, but two of its racial/colonial aspects have gone under-remarked. First, the ... -
Postcolonial types of ambiguity: on interculturality and anglophone poetic form
Boynton, T. J. (West Chester University, 2019)Since at least the publication of William Empson’s seminal study of the concept in 1930, ambiguity has been acknowledged as an unparalleled source of poetic significance. Poetry’s defining feature, its verbal economy, ...