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Postcolonial Wales

Editor(s) Jane Aaron,Chris Williams

Paperback - £18.99

Language: English

Genre(s): Welsh Interest

June 2005 · 256 pages ·216x138mm

· Paperback - 9780708318560

About The Book

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.

Preface Jane Aaron and Chris Williams; Part I: Is Wales Postcolonial? Nation, Place and History Problematising Wales: An exploration in postcoloniality and historiography Chris Williams; In search of Wales, 1900-2002: Spatial theory and spatial politics Pyrs Gruffudd; 'Them and us': History and the discursive creation of nationhood Rob Phillips; Coming into view? Multiculturalism in postcolonial Wales Glenn Jordan; Part II: A Quiet Revolution? Devolution, 'Inclusiveness' and Postcoloniality The colonial legacy in Welsh politics Richard Wyn Jones; 'Maitres 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 Welsh writing in English and postcolonial literature Stephen Knight; Bardic postcolonialism Jane Aaron; What's in the 'post'?: Mass media as a 'site of struggle' David M. Barlow; What did 'Welsh' mean for 1990s Welsh pop Music? Dai Griffiths and Sarah Hill; Dramatic fictions in a 'postcolonial' Wales Steve Blandford; Horizon Wales: Visual arts and the postcolonial Iwan Bala.

About the Editor(s)

Author(s): Jane Aaron

Jane Aaron is Professor of English at the University of South Wales. She is the author of Pur fel y Dur - Y Gymraes yn Llên Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (University of Wales Press, 1998) and edited Our Sisters' Land (reprinted 2004) and Postcolonial Wales (2005). Her most recent book is Welsh Gothic (University of Wales Press, 2013).

Author(s): Chris Williams

Chris Williams is Professor of History and Head of the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University.