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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819754503321

Autore

Green Diane

Titolo

Emyr Humphreys : a postcolonial novelist? / / Diane Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-7083-2259-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Writing Wales in English

CREW series of critical and scholarly studies

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

Novelists, Welsh - 20th century

Postcolonialism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

General Editor's Preface; Postcolonialism and Wales: the Effects of Cultural Imperialism; A serious Welsh novelist': Redressing the Balance; The Emergence of Humphreys as a Postcolonial Writer; The Consolidation of Strategies in Outside the House of Baal; Strategies of Resistance: the Use of Indigenous Myth; Strategies of Resistance: the Use of Indigenous History in 'The Land of the Living' Sequence; Strategies of Resistance: the Use of History in the Independent Novels of the 1980's and 1990's; Monstering and Disabling: Paradigms and Tropes of Dispossession

Postscript: Speaking Welsh in English - a Postcolonial Purpose Notes; A Selected Bibliography of Emyr Humphreys's Fiction and Essays; A Selected Bibliography of Writing on Emyr Humphreys's Works; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.