Gender Studies in Wales: Poetry, Geography, Gender - Women Rewriting Contemporary Wales — Women Rewriting Contemporary Wales

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Yn yr astudiaeth newydd ac arloesol hon o'r cysylltiadau rhwng testun a lle, mynegiant creadigol a hunaniaeth ddiwylliannol, mae Alice Entwistle yn dangos sut y defnyddir y testun barddonol gan rai o feirdd benywaidd gorau Cymru i adlewyrchu'r cymhlethdodau gwleidyddol-ddiwylliannol o ysgrifennu yng Nghymru, ac am y cartref diwylliannol a rannant.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

In this ground-breaking new study of the connections between text and place, creative expression and cultural identity, Alice Entwistle demonstrates how some of Wales's finest female poets use the poetic text to reflect on the cultural-political complexities of writing in, or about, their shared cultural home.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

1. On the Border(s): The interstitial poetries of the contact zone 2. ‘Not without strangeness’: Ruth Bidgood’s unhomely mid-Wales 3. Frontier Country: Christine Evans 4. ‘A kind of authentic lie’: Gwyneth Lewis and the lyric sequence 5. Traverses, Ireland/Wales: Gillian Clarke, Christine Evans and Catherine Fisher 6. Wales and/or thereabouts: Sheenagh Pugh, Wendy Mulford and Zoë Skoulding

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Alice Entwistle is Principal Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan. Co-author with Jane Dowson of A History of Twentieth Century British Women’s Poetry (Cambridge, 2005), she has published widely on poetries voicing the relationship between politics and identity in and beyond the cultural complex of the so-called British Isles.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Poetry, Geography, Gender explores literary and geographical analysis, cultural criticism and gender politics in the work of such well-known literary figures as Gwyneth Lewis, Menna Elfyn, Christine Evans and Gillian Clarke, alongside newer names like Zoë Skoulding and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch. Drawing on her unpublished interviews with many of the featured poets, Alice Entwistle examines how and why their various senses of affiliation with a shared cultural hinterland should encourage us to rethink the relationship between nation, identity and literary aesthetics in post-devolution Wales. This series of lively and detailed close readings reveals how writers use the textual terrain of the poem, both literally and metaphorically, to register and script aesthetic as well as geo-political and cultural-historical change. As an innovative critical study, this volume thus takes particular interest in the ways in which author, text and territory help to inform and produce each other in the culturally complex and confident small nation that is twenty-first-century Wales.