Postcolonialism Revisited - Writing Wales in English

Informationen zum Autor Kirsti Bohata is professor of English and co-director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, Swansea University. Klappentext Postcolonialism Revisited examines the ways in which postcolonial theory may be usefully adopted and adapted in order to provide an illuminating reading of Welsh writing in English, and how the Anglophone literature of Wales raises questions about the assumptions and dogmas of postcolonial theory. In addition to dealing with a range of theorists in the field, including Frantz Fanon, Bill Ashcroft and Homi Bhabha, the book looks at how Wales has been constructed as a colonized nation in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing. Authors considered include R. S. Thomas, Margiad Evans, Christopher Meredith, Peter Finch and Rhys Davies. Zusammenfassung 'Postcolonialism Revisited' examines the ways in which postcolonial theory may be usefully adopted and adapted in order to provide an illuminating reading of Welsh writing in English! and how the Anglophone literature in Wales challenges many of the assumptions and dogmas of postcolonial theory.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsti Bohata, Bohata Kirsti
• Assisted by: M. Wynn Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.09.2004
• EAN: 9780708318928
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-1892-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Writing Wales in English; Writing Wales in English; University of Wales Press - Wr
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Postcolonialism, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, revisited