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Wales Unchained: Literature, Politics and Identity in the American Century
Daniel Williams 
Swansea University Author:
Daniel Williams
Abstract
A study that explores how Welsh writers, politicians and intellectuals have defined themselves – and have been defined by others – since the early twentieth century. It explores ideas of race in the 1930s, reflects on the metaphoric uses of boxing, asks what it means to inhabit the ‘American century...
| ISBN: | 9781783162123 9781783162147 |
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| Published: |
Cardiff
University of Wales Press
2015
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| Online Access: |
https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/wales-unchained/ |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa25481 |
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| Abstract: |
A study that explores how Welsh writers, politicians and intellectuals have defined themselves – and have been defined by others – since the early twentieth century. It explores ideas of race in the 1930s, reflects on the metaphoric uses of boxing, asks what it means to inhabit the ‘American century’ and probes the linguistic bases of cultural identity. The book discusses Rhys Davies in relation to D. H. Lawrence, explores the simultaneous impact that Dylan Thomas and saxophonist Charlie Parker had on the Beat Generation in 1950s America, and juxtaposes the uses made of class and ethnicity in the thought of Aneurin Bevan and Paul Robeson. The book is transatlantic in scope and comparative in method. |
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| Item Description: |
Short Listed for Wales Book of the Year 2016. http://www.literaturewales.org/our-projects/wales-book-year/2016-short-list/ |
| Keywords: |
Wales, Identity, Comparative Literature, Ethnicity, Postcolonialism, Multiculturalism, Wales social conditions, 19th Century, Welsh United States, Collective memory Wales, Group identity Wales, English literature, Literary criticism European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |