Who speaks for Wales? : nation, culture, identity /
Who speaks for Wales? : nation, culture, identity /
Nation, culture, identity
Raymond Williams ; edited by Daniel Williams.
- liii, 246 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The return of the native -- Culture -- 1. Who speaks for Wales? -- 2. Welsh culture -- 3. The arts in Wales -- 4. Wales and England -- 5. Community -- 6. West of Ofa's Dyke -- History -- 1. The social significance of 1926 -- 2. Boyhood -- 3. On Gwyn A. Williams: Three reviews -- 4. Remaking Welsh history -- 5. Black mountains -- Literature -- 1. Marxism, poetry, Wales -- 2. The Welsh industrial novel -- 3. The Welsh trilogy and The Volunteers -- 4. Freedom and a lack of confidence -- 5. Working-class, proletarian, socialist: Problems in some Welsh novels -- 6. All things betray thee -- 7. People of the Black mountains -- Politics -- 1. The importance of community -- 2. Are we becoming more divided? -- 3. The culture of nations -- 4. Decentralism and the politics of place -- 5. The practice of possibility.
"Who Speaks for Wales? is the first collection of Raymond Williams' writings on Welsh culture, literature, history and politics. It brings together material that has long been overlooked by commentators on his work, and emphasises both the centrality of his Welshness to his work as a whole, and the continuing relevance of his thought for post-devolution Wales. Daniel Williams's introduction offers an original reading of Raymond Williams's career from a Welsh perspective and underlines the ways in which his engagement with Welsh issues makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates on nation, race and class. Who Speaks for Wales? will be essential reading for everyone interested in questions of identity, nationhood and ethnicity in Britain and beyond."--Publisher's website.
0708317855 9780708317853 0708317847 9780708317846
Nationalism--Wales.
Wales--Civilization.
DA722 / .W55 2003
942.9
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The return of the native -- Culture -- 1. Who speaks for Wales? -- 2. Welsh culture -- 3. The arts in Wales -- 4. Wales and England -- 5. Community -- 6. West of Ofa's Dyke -- History -- 1. The social significance of 1926 -- 2. Boyhood -- 3. On Gwyn A. Williams: Three reviews -- 4. Remaking Welsh history -- 5. Black mountains -- Literature -- 1. Marxism, poetry, Wales -- 2. The Welsh industrial novel -- 3. The Welsh trilogy and The Volunteers -- 4. Freedom and a lack of confidence -- 5. Working-class, proletarian, socialist: Problems in some Welsh novels -- 6. All things betray thee -- 7. People of the Black mountains -- Politics -- 1. The importance of community -- 2. Are we becoming more divided? -- 3. The culture of nations -- 4. Decentralism and the politics of place -- 5. The practice of possibility.
"Who Speaks for Wales? is the first collection of Raymond Williams' writings on Welsh culture, literature, history and politics. It brings together material that has long been overlooked by commentators on his work, and emphasises both the centrality of his Welshness to his work as a whole, and the continuing relevance of his thought for post-devolution Wales. Daniel Williams's introduction offers an original reading of Raymond Williams's career from a Welsh perspective and underlines the ways in which his engagement with Welsh issues makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates on nation, race and class. Who Speaks for Wales? will be essential reading for everyone interested in questions of identity, nationhood and ethnicity in Britain and beyond."--Publisher's website.
0708317855 9780708317853 0708317847 9780708317846
Nationalism--Wales.
Wales--Civilization.
DA722 / .W55 2003
942.9