Wales Unchained
Wales Unchained

Author: Daniel G Williams

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2015-04-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1783162139

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Contributes to the fields of Welsh Studies, Comparative Studies, Transatlantic Studies Offers analyses of key chapters in the cultural making of modern Wales. Offers insights into national and ethnic identity, and encourages readers to consider the extent of Welsh tolerance and intolerance. Draws on Welsh and English language sources, and ranges across literature, history, music and political thought. The book is an example of Welsh cultural studies in action. The book intervenes in key debates within cultural studies: nationalism and assimilationism; language and race; class and identity; cultural identity and political citizenship

Performing Wales
Performing Wales

Author: Lisa Lewis

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1786832437

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This book uses ideas from performance studies to examine Welsh culture as performance. Focusing on three aspects central to the investigation – notions of people, memory and place, all of which are central to definitions of Welsh cultural performance – the book explores these aspects in relation to specific case studies taken from the museum, from heritage, festival, and theatre.

Women, Identity and Religion in Wales
Women, Identity and Religion in Wales

Author: Manon Ceridwen James

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2018-02-15

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1786831953

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It is a study of the relationship between identity and religion in women’s lives in Wales today. It will help the reader have a better and more comprehensive understanding of the religious context in Wales to the present day. It will introduce the reader to theological and religious themes as well as reflections on identity in the work of several key female Welsh writers – Menna Elfyn, Jasmine Donahaye, Jam Morris, Charlotte Williams and Mererid Hopwood. It will help the reader to engage with issues of Welsh identity and religion and gain insight into challenges facing the churches today and engage with the lived experience of women in Wales.

Wales in England, 1914-1945
Wales in England, 1914-1945

Author: Wendy Ugolini

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-05-23

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0198863276

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The first cultural history of English Welsh duality - an identification with two constituent nations at once - that explores how 'Welshness' was imagined, performed, and mobilised in England during and between the two world wars.

Between Wales and England
Between Wales and England

Author: Bethan Jenkins

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1786830310

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Between Wales and England is an exploration of eighteenth-century anglophone Welsh writing by authors for whom English-language literature was mostly a secondary concern. In its process, the work interrogates these authors’ views on the newly-emerging sense of ‘Britishness’, finding them in many cases to be more nuanced and less resistant than has generally been considered. It looks primarily at the English-language works of Lewis Morris, Evan Evans, and Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) in the context of both their Welsh- and English-language influences and time spent travelling between the two countries, considering how these authors responded to and reimagined the new national identity through their poetry and prose.

All That Is Wales
All That Is Wales

Author: M. Wynn Thomas

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2017-05-05

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1786830906

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Wales may be small, but culturally it is richly varied. The aim in this collection of essays on a number of English-language authors from Wales is to offer a sample of the country’s internal diversity. To that end, the author’s examined range – from the exotic Lynette Roberts (Argentinean by birth, but of Welsh descent) and the English-born Peggy Ann Whistler who opted for new, Welsh identity as ‘Margiad Evans’, to Nigel Heseltine, whose bizarre stories of the antics of the decaying squierarchy of the Welsh border country remain largely unknown, and the Utah-based poet Leslie Norris, who brings out the bicultural character of Wales in his Welsh-English translations. The result is a portrait of Wales as a ‘micro-cosmopolitan country’, and the volume is prefaced with an autobiographical essay by one of the leading specialists in the field, authoritatively tracing the steady growth over recent decades of serious, informed and sustained study of what is a major achievement of Welsh culture.

The Nations of Wales
The Nations of Wales

Author: M. Wynn Thomas

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1783168390

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Opens up a period in Welsh cultural history that has been almost completely overlooked First monograph to explore Welsh history between 1890-1914

Two Rivers from a Common Spring: The Books Council of Wales at 60
Two Rivers from a Common Spring: The Books Council of Wales at 60

Author: Helgard Krause

Publisher: Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Published: 2021-11-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1914981049

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A volume celebrating sixty years since the establishment of the Books Council of Wales, comprising sixteen chapters by various scholars and contributors in the field. A Welsh companion volume is available: O'r Hedyn i'r Ddalen (9781914981036).

Raymond Williams: From Wales to the World
Raymond Williams: From Wales to the World

Author: Stephen Woodhams

Publisher: Parthian Books

Published: 2021-09-01

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1913640930

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Raymond Williams came from Wales, and was brought up in a working-class family. These facts of place and class are the start of a thread which runs throughout his life and work. In Raymond Williams: From Wales to the World his writing, whether theoretical, historical, critical or as fiction has been treated as a single whole, recognising that his ideas were interwoven as a literary and intellectual engagement with Wales and the world over several decades. This collection of essays, edited by Stephen Woodhams, serves to further engage and extend his ideas of class and society.

Pacifism, Peace and Modern Welsh Writing
Pacifism, Peace and Modern Welsh Writing

Author: Linden Peach

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1786834049

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The book takes a literary-historical approach to its subject which opens up new perspectives on the history of peace and pacifism in Wales which historical approaches alone have overlooked. It includes English- and Welsh-language texts and highlights the interdependence of English and Welsh culture in Wales. Quotations from Welsh-language texts are given in Welsh and in English translation to assist readers who are not Welsh speakers. The reader is introduced to the changing nature of pacifism, peace and anti-warism and how these terms have acquired different meanings over time. The historical narrative is designed to make this scholarship more accessible to the reader who is not a specialist in peace studies. The arguments of the book are illustrated and developed in accessible but original readings of key Welsh writers on peace and pacifism.