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Author: John Perrott Jenkins
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Imprint: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 9781786837783
ISBN 10: 1786837781
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 June 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This innovative and illuminating analysis of the representation of masculinity in south Wales coalfield fiction digs deep beneath the surface of the texts and mines a rich seam of profound gender complexity and contradiction. To read it is an energising intellectual experience, which highlights the general relevance of these novels. -- Jane Aaron, University of South Wales * University of Wales Press * John Jenkins's sensitive and acute exploration of these novels reinstates the unjustly overlooked Ron Berry into the canon, and persuasively demonstrates that damaged and toxic masculinities are still a feature of post-industrial and post-devolution Welsh literary cultures - this is a fine addition to the field of Welsh literary masculinities. -- Aidan Byrne, University of Wolverhampton * University of Wales Press * Jenkins's book is a long-overdue, trenchant and exceptionally perceptive analysis of the culture of masculinity in the Valleys, as represented in some key industrial novels including Lewis Jones's Cwmardy and Menna Gallie's Strike for a Kingdom. Ranging from the 1930s to the 1980s, it shows how a persistently macho culture can repress and warp both women and men ... For Welsh readers, particularly, this is an essential book, analysing a phenomenon that is so ingrained in our culture that it has for too long been simply accepted as the norm. -- Katie Gramich, Cardiff University * University of Wales Press *
""This innovative and illuminating analysis of the representation of masculinity in south Wales coalfield fiction digs deep beneath the surface of the texts and mines a rich seam of profound gender complexity and contradiction. To read it is an energising intellectual experience, which highlights the general relevance of these novels."" -- Jane Aaron, University of South Wales * University of Wales Press * ""John Jenkins’s sensitive and acute exploration of these novels reinstates the unjustly overlooked Ron Berry into the canon, and persuasively demonstrates that damaged and toxic masculinities are still a feature of post-industrial and post-devolution Welsh literary cultures – this is a fine addition to the field of Welsh literary masculinities."" -- Aidan Byrne, University of Wolverhampton * University of Wales Press * ""Jenkins’s book is a long-overdue, trenchant and exceptionally perceptive analysis of the culture of masculinity in the Valleys, as represented in some key industrial novels including Lewis Jones’s Cwmardy and Menna Gallie’s Strike for a Kingdom. Ranging from the 1930s to the 1980s, it shows how a persistently macho culture can repress and warp both women and men … For Welsh readers, particularly, this is an essential book, analysing a phenomenon that is so ingrained in our culture that it has for too long been simply accepted as the norm."" -- Katie Gramich, Cardiff University * University of Wales Press *
Author Information
The book is aimed principally at secondary, further and tertiary educational establishments studying and working in the field of Welsh Writing in English. However, its subject - working-class masculinity as a gendered construct - has wider applications across many university and college courses.
