Poetry, Geography, Gender

Alice Entwistle

Description

Poetry, Geography, Gender examines how questions of place, identity and creative practice intersect in the work of some of Wales' best known contemporary poets, including Gillian Clarke, Gwyneth Lewis, Ruth Bidgood and Sheenagh Pugh. Merging traditional literary criticism with cultural-political and geographical analysis, Alice Entwistle shows how writers' different senses of relationship with Wales, its languages, history and imaginative, as well as political, geography feeds the form as well as the content of their poetry. Her innovative critical study thus takes particular interest in the ways in which author, text and territory help to inform and produce each other in the culturally complex and confident small nation that is twenty-first century Wales.
1. On the Border(s): The interstitial poetries of the contact zone 2. 'Not without strangeness': Ruth Bidgood's unhomely mid-Wales 3. Frontier Country: Christine Evans 4. 'A kind of authentic lie': Gwyneth Lewis and the lyric sequence 5. Traverses, Ireland/Wales: Gillian Clarke, Christine Evans and Catherine Fisher 6. Wales and/or thereabouts: Sheenagh Pugh, Wendy Mulford and Zoe Skoulding

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Idioma inglés
• English
• Poetry
• Wales
• Anglais

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 septembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780708326701
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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P O E T RY, G E O G R A P H Y, G E N D E R

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Gender Studies in Wales Astudiaethau Rhywedd yng Nghymru

Series Editors Jane Aaron, University of South Wales Brec’hed Piette, Bangor University Sian Rhiannon Williams, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Series Advisory Board Deirdre Beddoe, Emeritus Professor Mihangel Morgan, Aberystwyth University Teresa Rees, Cardiff University

The aim of this series is to îll a current gap in knowledge. As a number of historians, sociologists and literary critics have for some time been pointing out, there is a dearth of published research on the characteris- tics and effects of gender difference in Wales, both as it affected lives in the past and as it continues to shape present-day experience. Socially constructed concepts of masculine and feminine difference inuence every aspect of individuals’ lives; experiences in employment, in education, in culture and politics, as well as in personal relationships, are all shaped by them. Ethnic identities are also gendered; a country’s history affects its concepts of gender difference so that what is seen as appropriately ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ varies within different cultures. What is needed in the Welsh context is more detailed research on the ways in which gender difference has operated and continues to operate within Welsh societies. Accordingly, this interdisciplinary and bilingual series of volumes on Gender Studies in Wales, authored by academics who are leaders in their particular îelds of study, is designed to explore the diverse aspects of male and female identities in Wales, past and present. The series is bilingual, in the sense that some of its intended volumes will be in Welsh and some in English.

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P O E T RY, G E O G R A P H Y, G E N D E R

Women Rewriting Contemporary Wales

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Alice Entwistle

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS CARDIFF 2013

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© Alice Entwistle, 2013

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. 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.

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

ISBN 978-0-7083-2669-5 e-ISBN 978-0-7083-2670-1

The rights of Alice Entwistle to be identiîed as author of this work have been asserted in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Typeset by Mark Heslington Ltd, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire

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For Claire Coghlin and Gareth Reeves who showed me how, and for Tom, with love

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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface

Introduction

Contents

 1 On the Border(s): The Interstitial Poetries of the Contact Zone

 2 ‘Not without strangeness’: Ruth Bidgood’s Unhomely Mid Wales

 3 Frontier Country: Christine Evans

 4 ‘A kind of authentic lie’: Gwyneth Lewis’s English-Language Sequences

 5 Traverses: Gillian Clarke, Christine Evans, Catherine Fisher and Ireland/Wales

 6 Wales and/or Thereabouts: Sheenagh Pugh, Wendy Mulford and Zoë Skoulding

Afterword

Notes Bibliography Index of Names General Index

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