Postcolonialism Revisited

Kirsti Bohata

Description

Postcolonialism Revisited is a ground-breaking book, the first to explore and analyse Anglophone Welsh writing, both literary and otherwise, in the context of contemporary thinking about colonial and post-colonial cultures. Kirsti Bohata considers how far the paradigms of postcolonial theory may be usefully adopted and adapted to provide an illuminating exploration of Welsh writing in English, while simultaneously considering the challenges that such writing might offer to the field of postcolonial theory. In addition to dealing with a range of theorists in the field, including Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Charlotte Williams and Homi Bhabha, the book looks at how Wales has been constructed as a colonized nation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing. Themed chapters include the treatment of place in English- and Welsh-language writing of the 1950s and 1960s; hybridity and assimilation; the position of the Welsh as 'outsiders inside'; the women's movement in Wales during the fin de siecle; and postcolonial understanding of linguistic power struggles. A variety of forgotten writers have been unearthed in this study and are considered alongside more famous names such as R. S. Thomas, Margiad Evans, Arthur Machen, Christopher Meredith and Rhys Davies. Written in an accessible style, Postcolonialism Revisited will be required reading for those involved in the study of Welsh writing in English.
1. Theoretical Contexts; 2. Stereotypes of Alterity: Race, Sexuality and Gender; 3. En-gendering a New Wales: Nationalism, Feminism and Empire; 4. The Battle for the Hills: Politicized Landscapes and the Erasure of Place; 5. 'Devices of Otherness'? Code-switching, Audience and the Politics of Language; 6. Hybridity and Authenticity

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Idioma inglés
• Irish
• English
• European
• Welsh
• Scottish
• Anglais

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juin 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780708322369
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Postcolonialism

Revisited

Writing Wales in English

CREWseries of Critical and Scholarly Studies General Editor: Professor M. Wynn Thomas (CREW, Swansea University)

ThisCREWseries is dedicated to Emyr Humphreys, a major figure in the literary culture of modern Wales, a founding patron of theCentre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, and, along with Gillian Clarke and Seamus Heaney, one ofCREW’s Honorary Associates. Grateful thanks are due to the late Richard Dynevor for making this series possible.

Other titles in the series Stephen Knight,A Hundred Years of Fiction(978-0-7083-1846-1) Barbara Prys-Williams,Twentieth-Century Autobiography(978-0-7083- 1891-1) Kirsti Bohata,Postcolonialism Revisited(978-0-7083-1892-8) Linden Peach,Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women’s Fiction(978-0- 7083-1998-7) Chris Wiggington,Modernism from the Margins(978-0-7083-1927-7) Sarah Prescott,Eighteenth-Century Writing from Wales(978-0-7083- 2053-2) Hywel Dix,After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain(978-0-7083-2153-9) Matthew Jarvis,Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry(978-0- 7083-2152-2) Harri Roberts,Embodying Identity: Representations of the Body in Welsh Literature(978-0-7083-2169-0)

Postcolonialism Revisited

Writing Wales in English

K I R S T I B O H ATA

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS CARDIFF 2004

© Kirsti Bohata, 2004

First published in 2004 by the University of Wales Press. Reprinted 2009.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London, EC1N 8TS. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to The University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff, CF10 4UP. www.uwp.co.uk

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-0-7083-1892-8 e-ISBN 978-0-7083-2236-9

The right of Kirsti Bohata to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Printed in Wales by Dinefwr Press, Llandybïe.

For Bren and Vlad

General Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements

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Theoretical Contexts

Stereotypes of

C ONTENTS

Alterity: Race, Sexuality and Gender

Engendering a New Wales: Nationalism, Feminism and Empire in theFin de Siècle

The Battle for the Hills: Politicized Landscapes and the Erasure of Place

‘Devices of Otherness’? Codeswitching, Audience and the Politics of Language

Hybridity and Authenticity

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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