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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825918503321

Titolo

Rediscovering Margiad Evans [[electronic resource] ] : marginality, gender and illness / / edited by Kirsti Bohata and Katie Gramich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2013

ISBN

0-7083-2561-0

1-299-20145-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Gender studies in Wales

Altri autori (Persone)

BohataKirsti

GramichKatie

Disciplina

828.91209

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

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; The Archivist's Tale: Primary Sources for the Study of Margiad Evans; 'Two Nations at War Within it': Marriage as Metaphor in Margiad Evans's Country Dance (1932); 'Born to a Million Dismemberments': Female Hybridity in the Border Writing of Margiad Evans, Hilda Vaughan and Mary Webb; Gothic Borderlands: The Hauntology of Place in the Fiction of Margiad Evans; Time, Memory and Identity in the Short Stories of Margiad Evans; Margiad Evans and Eudora Welty: A Confluence of Imaginations

The Apparitional Lover: Homoerotic and Lesbian Imagery in the Writing of Margiad Evans'Herstory' of Epilepsy in a Creative Writer: The Case of Margiad Evans; Warding off the Real: The Recreation of Self in Autobiography and A Ray of Darkness; 'The Human Tune': Margiad Evans and the Frustrating Fifties; Margiad Evans: Memory, Fiction and Autobiography; 'Eternity is Now my Mood': A View of the Later Writings of Margiad Evans; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays rediscovers and reassesses the extraordinary literary legacy of the border writer, Margiad Evans (1909-48) - novelist, poet, short story writer and autobiographer.