| Description |
1 online resource (290 pages) |
| Series |
CREW series of critical and scholarly studies |
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Writing Wales in English |
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CREW series of critical and scholarly studies.
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Writing Wales in English.
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| Contents |
General Editor's Preface; Postcolonialism and Wales: the Effects of CulturalImperialism; A serious Welsh novelist': Redressing the Balance; The Emergence of Humphreys as a Postcolonial Writer; The Consolidation of Strategies in Outside the Houseof Baal; Strategies of Resistance: the Use of Indigenous Myth; Strategies of Resistance: the Use of Indigenous Historyin 'The Land of the Living' Sequence; Strategies of Resistance: the Use of History in theIndependent Novels of the 1980s and 1990s; Monstering and Disabling: Paradigms and Tropesof Dispossession |
| Summary |
This book explores in detail the novels written by Emyr Humphreys during a timespan of over fifty years, from his first, A Little Kingdom, published in 1946, to The Gift of a Daughter, published in 1998 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-283) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Humphreys, Emyr -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Novelists, Welsh -- 20th century.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0708322174 |
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070832259X (electronic bk.) |
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9780708322178 |
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9780708322598 (electronic bk.) |
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