Bibliograph

New territories in modernism, Anglophone Welsh writing, 1930-1949, Laura Wainwright

Type

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New territories in modernism, Anglophone Welsh writing, 1930-1949, Laura Wainwright

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

New territories in modernism

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Laura Wainwright

Series statement

CREW series of critical and scholarly studiesWriting Wales in English

Sub title

Anglophone Welsh writing, 1930-1949

Summary

This book is an examination of the novels of Emyr Humphreys in the light of his ideas on Wales: Welsh history, Welsh culture and the importance of a separate Welsh identity. It explores Humphreys' practice in the light both of his own theories of culture and fiction and of a variety of models derived from postcolonial theory. Its main conclusions are that there are two particular techniques, the use of Welsh history and of Celtic myth, that have proved particularly central to Humphreys' purposes throughout his career. These have consistently been the principal ways in which he foregrounds for the reader both what it means to be Welsh and the importance, for the nation, of maintaining an understanding of its heritage. And both these key strategies of his fiction should, it is argued, be read as typical postcolonial devices

Target audience

adult

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