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__A Hundred Years of Fiction__is the first book to explore and analyse the Anglophone fiction of Wales in the twentieth century. Stephen Knight looks at writers who deal with Welsh life and issues, ranging from Allen Raine to Christopher Meredith, and asks how they relate to the determining forces of their period and contexts, from the economy and politics to concepts of Welsh identity and the pressures of a colonial situation. The book is in three sections. The first deals with colonial and touristic fiction from the late nineteenth century on, noting that some authors like 'Allen Raine’ and Margiad Evans, as well as delighting English readers with quaintness, also represented what they saw as the real values of Welsh social culture. Section two shows how writing about the industrial settlement broke with a colonized viewpoint and working-class authors like Jack Jones, Lewis Jones and Gwyn Thomas realized with verve and embattled anger the situation on the coalfield - though some, like Richard Llewellyn, reversed that pattern into industrial romance. After the second world war, as section three describes, writers increasingly wrote about a Wales that sought self-sufficiency, and m

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Author

Green, Diane; Humphreys, Emyr

Publisher

Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780708322598

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Poetry