Embodying Identity
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Embodying Identity

Representations of the Body in Welsh Literature

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eBook - ePub

Embodying Identity

Representations of the Body in Welsh Literature

About this book

Since the time of Freud, some of the most radical innovators within critical theory have stressed the importance of the body and its representation to the constitution of subjectivity. This book explores some of the theoretical debates surrounding the body, and assesses its value as a critical concept, through an analysis of the body's representation both in Welsh literary texts in English, and discourse about Wales more generally. Combining psychoanalytic with more culturally orientated approaches to the body, the book offers an historically informed account of the body that analyses its role in the construction and contestation of identity at a cultural as well as individual level, contributing in a new and radical way to the rapidly expanding critical literature concerned with exploring the construction of identity in a Welsh cultural context.

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Information

Publisher
University of Wales Press
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780708321690
eBook ISBN
9781783163670
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. ABBREVIATIONS
  7. 1: Introduction: Theorizing the Body
  8. 2: Class, Nation and Corporeality in the 1847 Blue Books Report
  9. CONTEXTUALIZING THE REPORT
  10. LANGUAGE AND THE BODY IN THE REPORT
  11. THE AFTERMATH
  12. 3: The Body and the Book: Caradoc Evans’s My People
  13. 4: ‘I give the Border’: Margiad Evans and Wales
  14. 5: ‘[B]eating on the Jailing Slab of the Womb’: The Alleged Immaturity of Dylan Thomas
  15. 6: ‘[W]hatever / I throw up now is still theirs’: Abjection in R. S. Thomas’s ‘Poetry of Exile’
  16. 7: Horror and Wonder: Glyn Jones’s The Valley, the City, the Village and Niall Griffiths’s Grits
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography