Postcolonialism Revisited: Writing Wales in English - Softcover

Bohata, Kirsti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708318924 ISBN 13: 9780708318928

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2004

Synopsis

Postcolonialism Revisited is a ground-breaking book, the first to explore and analyse Anglophone Welsh writing, both literary and otherwise, in the context of contemporary thinking about colonial and post-colonial cultures. Kirsti Bohata considers how far the paradigms of postcolonial theory may be usefully adopted and adapted to provide an illuminating exploration of Welsh writing in English, while simultaneously considering the challenges that such writing might offer to the field of postcolonial theory. In addition to dealing with a range of theorists in the field, including Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Charlotte Williams and Homi Bhabha, the book looks at how Wales has been constructed as a colonized nation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing. Themed chapters include the treatment of place in English- and Welsh-language writing of the 1950s and 1960s; hybridity and assimilation; the position of the Welsh as 'outsiders inside'; the women's movement in Wales during the fin de siecle; and postcolonial understanding of linguistic power struggles. A variety of forgotten writers have been unearthed in this study and are considered alongside more famous names such as R. Thomas, Margiad Evans, Arthur Machen, Christopher Meredith and Rhys Davies. Written in an accessible style, Postcolonialism Revisited will be required reading for those involved in the study of Welsh writing in English.

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About the Author

Kirsti Bohata is Research Associate, CREW (Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales), University of Wales, Swansea. She has taught at the Universities of Wales, Swansea, Glamorgan and Stuttgart and has published widely on postcolonialism, Welsh writing in English and the fin de siecle.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0708318924
• ISBN 13: 9780708318928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224