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Abstract
This book explores in detail the novels written by Emyr Humphreys during a timespan of over fifty years, from his first, A Little Kingdom, published in 1946, to The Gift of a Daughter, published in 1998. An early chapter comprises a literary biography with the following chapters devoted to: the early novels including A Toy Epic; a separate examination of Outside the House of Baal, considered by many to be his finest achievement; his use of Celtic myth as a patterning device; similarly his use of Welsh history is covered in 2 chapters; and finally his use of various postcolonial strategies. It also contains an extensive bibliography of work by and about Emyr Humphreys.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Front Cover | ||
| Title Page | iii | ||
| Copyright Page | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| General Editor’s Preface | vii | ||
| Chapter 1: Postcolonialism and Wales:\rthe Effects of Cultural Imperialism | 1 | ||
| Chapter 2: ‘A serious Welsh novelist’: Redressing the Balance | 12 | ||
| Chapter 3: The Emergence of Humphreys as a Postcolonial Writer | 46 | ||
| Chapter 4: The Consolidation of Strategies in Outside the House of Baal | 77 | ||
| Chapter 5: Strategies of Resistance: the Use of Indigenous Myth | 101 | ||
| Chapter 6: Strategies of Resistance: the Use of Indigenous History in ‘The Land of the Living’ Sequence | 128 | ||
| Chapter 7: Strategies of Resistance: the Use of History in the Independent Novels of the 1980s and 1990s | 154 | ||
| Chapter 8: Monstering and Disabling: Paradigms and Tropes of Dispossession | 187 | ||
| Chapter :9 Postscript: Speaking Welsh in English – a Postcolonial Purpose | 216 | ||
| Notes | 219 | ||
| A Selected Bibliography of Emyr Humphreys’s Fiction and Essays | 247 | ||
| A Selected Bibliography of Writing on Emyr Humphreys’s Works | 254 | ||
| Bibliography | 262 | ||
| Index | 285 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |