Postcolonial Wales

Edited by Jane Aaron and Chris Williams

A collection of essays that uses questions, hypotheses and concepts drawn from postcolonial theory to understand the culture and politics of post-devolution Wales. Beginning with discussions of how Wales as a nation has been understood historiographically, as well as historically, the book focuses in the next section on society and politics in post-devolution Wales.

The final section of the volume considers Welsh cultural difference in terms of literature, the mass media, music, drama and the visual arts. Flexible in approach and diverse in their approaches, each contribution aims to stimulate ideas and suggest new ways of thinking about contemporary Wales.

Contents:

• Preface Jane Aaron and Chris Williams
  Part I: Is Wales Postcolonial? Nation, 'Race' and History
• Problematizing Wales: An exploration in Historiography and Postcoloniality Chris Williams
• In the Shadow of the First-born: The Colonial Legacy in Welsh Politics Richard Wyn Jones
• Island Stories and Border Crossings: School History and the Discursive Creation of National Identity in Wales Robert Phillips
• 'We Never Really Noticed You Were Coloured': Postcolonialist Reflections on Immigrants and Minorities in Wales Glenn Jordan
  Part II: A Quiet Revolution? Devolution and Postcoloniality
• ‘Maîtres chez nous?’: Awaiting the Quiet Revolution in Wales Alys Thomas
• A New Beginning or the Beginning of the End? The Welsh Language in Postcolonial Wales Dylan Phillips
• Women’s Political Participation and the Welsh Assembly Paul Chaney
  Part III: A Postcolonial Culture? Welsh Cultural Difference
• Bardic Anti-colonialism Jane Aaron
• Welsh Fiction in English as Postcolonial Literature Stephen Knight
• Dramatic Fictions in a Postcolonial Wales Steve Blandford
• What’s in the ‘Post’?: Mass Media as a ‘Site of Struggle’ David M. Barlow
• Postcolonial Music in Contemporary Wales: Hybrids and Weird Geographies Dai Griffiths and Sarah Hill
• Horizon Wales: Visual Art and the Postcolonial Iwan Bala

Jane Aaron is Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan. Chris Williams is Professor of Welsh History at the University of Wales, Swansea.