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Literature

A Summary and Analysis of Ambrose Bierce’s ‘The Boarded Window’

‘The Boarded Window’ is a story by the American author Ambrose Bierce, who is also remembered for his witty The Devil’s Dictionary and for his mysterious disappearance in around 1914. Like many of Bierce’s tales, ‘The Boarded Window’ contains elements of the horror genre. The story is about a man […]

Literature

A Summary and Analysis of Audre Lorde’s ‘A Woman Speaks’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘A Woman Speaks’ is a poem by the African-American poet Audre Lorde (1934-92), published in her 1978 collection The Black Unicorn. Lorde was a self-described ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.’ In the poem, a Black woman addresses society and warns that she has not […]