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Dominic Davies
Dominic Davies is currently a DPhil Student in English Literature at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Elleke Boemer. His research explores the literary negotiations of imperial infrastructure and indigenous resistance during the height of the British Empire, in India and Southern Africa in particular.
He completed his BA and MA at the University of Liverpool and his broader interests lie in the area of colonial and post-colonial literature, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory, and Marxist and materialist theory.
He is also one of the Senior Editors for the Oxonian Review website and a Copy-Editor for the AHRC-funded postgraduate journal Victorian Network.
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| 1 | Kipling, the Elton John of his age? |
Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late... |
Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies |
| 2 | Postcolonial Women Writers |
Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing... |
Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies |
| 3 | Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott |
Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights,... |
Jason Allen-Paisant, Dominic Davies |
| 4 | Olive Schreiner |
Dominic Davies talks about Olive Schreiner, the postcolonial South African author, and how her... |
Dominic Davies |
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| 1 | Colonial Writers - Introduction |
The title of the 'Post/Colonial' section of the Great Writers Inspire website is intended to... |
Dominic Davies |
| 2 | Contemporary Writers - Introduction |
The parameters of both 'Contemporary' and 'Postcolonial', the adjectives that preface the... |
Dominic Davies |
| 3 | Caribbean Writers |
The title of this section, 'Caribbean Writers', itself encapsulates one of the fundamental... |
Dominic Davies |
| 4 | Olive Schreiner |
Daughter of a German missionary father and British mother, Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was born... |
Dominic Davies |
| 5 | Derek Walcott |
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Dominic Davies |
| 6 | Joseph Conrad |
Born to Apollo and Ewelina Korzeniowski in 1857 in the Ukraine, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was an... |
Dominic Davies |
| 7 | Rudyard Kipling |
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Dominic Davies |
| 8 | J.M. Coetzee |
Born in 1940 in Cape Town to parents of Afrikaner descent, the life of John Maxwell Coetzee (pen... |
Dominic Davies |
| 9 | Post/Colonial Writing - Introduction |
We live in a world that is haunted by its colonial past. But which past is this? And is it also... |
Dominic Davies |