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Who Speaks for Wales? - Nation, Culture, Identity
Who Speaks for Wales? - Nation, Culture, Identity
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Casgliad hynod ddiddorol o ysgrifau ac erthyglau, darlithoedd a sgyrsiau Raymond Williams ar amryfal agweddau ar ddiwylliant a llenyddiaeth, hanes a gwleidyddiaeth Cymru, sy'n taflu goleuni ar ei syniadau am hunaniaeth genedlaethol, ac a ymddangosodd eisoes mewn amrywiol gyhoeddiadau, 1971-89. Cyhoeddwyd yn wreiddiol yn 2003.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
A collection of the writings of Raymond Williams being essays and articles, lectures and conversations on various aspects of Welsh culture, literature, history and politics, which throw light on his ideas about nationhood and identity, and which have appeared previously in various publications, 1971-89. First published in March 2003.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780708317846
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780708317846
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Who Speaks for Wales? - Nation, Culture, Identity
- Awdur / Author
- Williams, Raymond
- Current Price ex VAT
- £18.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £18.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Out of print
- Availability Status (CY)
- Allan o brint
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2018-02-14
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Editor
- Williams, Daniel
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 300 pages
- Size
- 138 × 216 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Athroniaeth, Gwleidyddiaeth, Cymdeithaseg, Economeg a'r Gyfraith (yn Saesneg) | EN: Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Economics and Law (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Athroniaeth (yn Saesneg) | EN: Philosophy (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Raymond Williams was born in 1921 in the Welsh border village of Pandy and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was for many years Staff Tutor with the Oxford University Extra-Mural Delegacy until his election in 1961 as Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1974 he was appointed Professor of Drama at Cambridge. He died in 1988. Daniel Williams is Lecturer in English Literature and Assistant Director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales at the University of Wales, Swansea. He has published widely on questions of national and ethnic identity, particularly in relation to British and American literatures.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Who Speaks for Wales? - Nation, Culture, Identity Edited by Daniel Williams pp liii246 216 x 138mm October 2007 (reprint) Paperback £18.99 0-7083-1784-6 Hardback £30.00 0-7083-1785-5 In the words of Cornel West, Raymond Williams was 'the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals'. A figure of international importance in the fields of literary criticism and social theory, Williams was also preoccupied throughout his life with the meaning and significance of his Welsh identity. Who Speaks for Wales? is the first collection of Raymond Williams's writings on Welsh culture, literature, history and politics. It brings together material that has long been overlooked by commentators on his work, and emphasizes both the centrality of his Welshness to his work as a whole, and the continuing relevance of his thought for post-devolution Wales. Daniel Williams's introduction offers an original reading of Raymond Williams's thought from a Welsh perspective and underlines the ways in which his engagement with Welsh issues makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates on nationalism and ethnicity. Who Speaks for Wales? will be essential reading for everyone interested in questions of identity, nationhood and ethnicity in Britain and beyond. 'Where is the real identity, the real culture?' Raymond Williams asks in this book. At a time when the European Union is strengthening supranational and regional ties and the Left is trying make sense of various particularistic identities, Williams's 'Welsh-European' writing, his 'regionally shaded' cultural critique, deserves the widest attention. Daniel Williams who has here edited the whole corpus of Williams's Welsh-focused non-fiction writings, book reviews, interviews, and fugitive pieces, also presents, in the introduction, a convincing defence of Raymond Williams against such critics as Edward Said and Paul Gilroy and a cogent rationale for Williams's continuing significance. Anyone interested in literary-historical criticism from the Left, in the issues of Welshness and of the tradition of a border country within the "Yookay" specifically, or in the problems of regional and national identity generally, will want to read Who Speaks for Wales? ' Werner Sollors, author of Beyond Ethnicity and Neither Black Nor White Yet Both
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