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Book SynopsisA collection of writings celebrating the work of the leading literary critic M. Wynn Thomas, with contributions by acclaimed writers, poets and critics, exploring the interactions of nationhood and gender, the politics of translation in Wales, and the connection between Welsh literature and American, Irish and Jewish literary traditions.
Trade Review' an unusually rich and festal Festchrift for the doyen of our critics.' Planet
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Alyce von Rothkirch and Daniel Williams; 1. Cymru and Wales Poem: Emyr Humphreys; Hywel Teifi Edwards, Y Pentre Gwyn and Manteg: from blessed plot to hotspot; Tony Brown, '...Stories from foreign countries': the short-stories of Kate Roberts and Margiad Evans; Jasmine Donahaye, 'Gartref-Bron': Adversity and Refuge in the Jewish literature of Wales. 2. Engendering Wales Poem: Gillian Clarke; Kirsti Bohata, En-gendering a New Wales: female allegories, home-rule and imperialism 1890 - 1910; Alyce von Rothkirch, 'There's a change come over the valley': the crisis of Masculinism in Early 20th Century Welsh Drama in English; Jane Aaron, Valleys Women Writing 3. American Perspectives Poem: Menna Elfyn (translated by Joseph Clancy); Helen Vendler, Under Milk Wood: Lists Made and Undone; Barbara Prys Williams, Web of Connections: Denise Levertov's constructions of origins; Daniel Williams, 'For Old Tom read Uncle Tom': Emlyn Williams, Ralph Ellison and the Invisible Man's Welsh routes 4. Translations Poem: Tony Conran; Dafydd Johnston, Early Translations of Dafydd ap Gwilym; Melinda Gray, 'Uncle Tom's Welsh Dress': Ethnicity, Authority and Translation; Michael Cronin, Global Questions and Local Visions: A Microcosmopolitan Perspective 5. Welsh Correspondences Poem: Grahame Davies; Jeremy Hooker, Poetic Lands and Border-lands: Henry Vaughan to Robert Frost; James A. Davies, 'in a different place, / changed': Dannie Abse, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot and Wales; Katie Gramich, 'Extravagant and Wheeling Strangers': Dylan Thomas, Derek Walcott and the House of English Literature. M. Wynn Thomas: A Bibliography Compiled by Rhian Reynolds.
