Overview

In the words of Cornel West, Raymond Williams was ""the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals."" A figure of international importance in the fields of cultural criticism and social theory, Williams was also preoccupied throughout his life with the meaning and significance of his Welsh identity. Who Speaks for Wales? was the first collection of Raymond Williams’s writings on Welsh culture, literature, history, and politics. Published in 2003, it appeared in the early years of Welsh political devolution and offered a historical and theoretical basis for thinking across the divisions of nationalism and socialism in Welsh thought. This new edition, appearing in the centenary of Williams’ birth, appears at a very different moment in which, after the Brexit referendum of 2016, Raymond Williams’s ""Welsh-European"" vision seems to have been soundly rejected and is now a reminder of what might have been. This new edition includes new material and a new afterword. Williams’s engagement with questions of nationhood and identity contained in this book spoke to readers from Berlin to New York, Sao Paulo to Tokyo. Daniel G. Williams’s new edition further underlines the ways in which Raymond Williams’ engagement with Welsh issues makes a significant contribution to contemporary international debates on nationalism, class, and ethnicity. Who Speaks for Wales? remains essential reading for everyone interested in questions of nationhood and identity in Britain and beyond.  

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Author:   Raymond Williams ,  Daniel G. Williams
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
Edition:   3rd New edition
ISBN:  

9781786837066

ISBN 10:   1786837064
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   15 May 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Return of the Native CULTURE 1. Who Speaks for Wales? 2. Welsh Culture 3. The Arts in Wales 4. Wales and England 5. Community 6. West of Offa's Dyke HISTORY 1. The Social Significance of 1926 2. Boyhood 3. On Gwyn A. Williams: Three Reviews The Black Domain Putting the Welsh in their Place The Shadow of the Dragon 4. Remaking Welsh History 5. For Britain, see Wales 6. Black Mountains LITERATURE 1. Dylan Thomas's Play for Voices 2. Marxism, Poetry, Wales 3. The Welsh Industrial Novel 4. The Welsh Trilogy and The Volunteers 5. Freedom and a Lack of Confidence 6. The Tenses of Imagination 7. Region and Class in the Novel 8. Working-Class, Proletarian, Socialist: Problems in Some Welsh Novels 9. A Welsh Companion 10. All Things Betray Thee 11. People of the Black Mountains POLITICS 1. The Importance of Community 2. Are We Becoming More Divided? 3. The Culture of Nations 4. Decentralism and the Politics of Place 5. The Practice of Possibility Afterword to the Centenary Edition Index

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This collection will be suitable for academic, but also political activists. Raymond Williams is a figure of international reputation and importance so there will be a lay readership for the book.

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