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The Caradoc Affair: Arguments for an Ethics of Place

Alyce von Rothkirch

North American Journal of Welsh Studies, Volume: 9, Pages: 36 - 53

Swansea University Author: Alyce von Rothkirch

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This article develops an ethical reading of the work of Caradoc Evans focusing on My People and Taffy. My aim is to show that an ethical reading which assumes a microcosmopolitan perspective can show that the ‘Caradoc Affair’, the outrage with which Evans’s early work was received in Wales, arose fr...

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Published in: North American Journal of Welsh Studies
Published: 2014
Online Access: http://welshstudiesjournal.org/article/view/50/
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