“A Prophet out of Gwalia:” The Poetry of Idris Davies and Postcolonial Wales
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Ronald Paul
Abstract
In recent years there has been an ongoing debate about whether or not modern Wales can be defined as a postcolonial society in the same way as the other Celtic nations of Britain - Scotland and Ireland. This essay seeks to cast new critical light on this discussion by approaching it through the writing of Idris Davies, one of Wales’s most distinctive modern poets. It is claimed that Davies’s own background as a Welshspeaking, working-class writer living both in Wales and England allowed him to develop a unique poetic voice that has much to say about some of the key issues in a Welsh postcolonial experience: the conflict of languages, the impact of history, the relationship between class and nation, margin and centre, and not least the existential condition of exile.
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- ‘Race’ and Realism: Vision, Textuality, and Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition
- ‘Language is the House We Live in:’ Language-Centeredness and the Limits of Political Activism in Post-War American Poetry (1950-1980)
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Editorial
- Variations on Dickens’s Great Expectations: Lloyd Jones’s Mr. Pip
- ‘Race’ and Realism: Vision, Textuality, and Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition
- ‘Language is the House We Live in:’ Language-Centeredness and the Limits of Political Activism in Post-War American Poetry (1950-1980)
- “A Prophet out of Gwalia:” The Poetry of Idris Davies and Postcolonial Wales
- “I Get My Culture Where I Can:” Functions of Intertextuality in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty
- Buchbesprechungen
- Bucheingänge
- Die Autoren dieses Heftes
