Embodying Identity
Representations of the Body in Welsh Literature
Distributed for University of Wales Press
195 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2009
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Table of Contents

Contents
General Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction: Theorizing the Body
2 Class, Nation and Corporeality in the 1847 Blue Books Report
3 The Body and the Book: Caradoc Evan’s My People
4 ’I give the Border’: Beating Evans and Wales
5 ’Beating on the jailing slab of the womb’: The Alleged Immaturity of Dylan Thomas
6 ’[W]hatever / I throw up now is still theirs’: Abjection in R.S. Thomas’s ’Poetry of Exile’
7 Horror and Wonder: Glyn Jones’s The Valley, the City, the Village and Niall Griffith’s Grits
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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