Queer Wales
The History, Culture and Politics of Queer Life in Wales
Distributed for University of Wales Press
352 pages
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5 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2016
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations and Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Huw Osborne
I. The Queer Past before 1900
1. Queer Loss: Felicia Hemans, (Trans)nationalisms and the Welsh Bard
Daniel Hannah
2. ‘Gender difference is nothing’: Cranogwen and Victorian Wales
Jane Aaron
3. ‘Please don’t whip me this time’: The Passions of George Powell of Nant-Eos
Harry Heuser
4. From Huw Arwystli to Siôn Eirian: Representative Examples of Cadi/Queer Life from Medieval to Twentieth-century Welsh Literature
Mihangel Morgan
II. Placing Queer Wales after 1900
5. ‘A queer kind of fancy’: Women, Same-sex Desire and Nation in Welsh Literature
Kirsti Bohata
6. ‘Not friends / But fellows in a union that ends’: Associations of Welshness and Non-heteronormativity in Edward Thomas
Andrew Webb
7. Fairy-tale Drag and the Transgender Nation in Rhys Davies, Erica Wooff and Jan Morris
Huw Osborne
III. Building Queer Wales Post-Devolution
8. Lesbian Motherhood in the South Wales Valleys: A Narrative Exploration
Alys Einion
9. Living in Fear: Homophobic Hate Crime in Wales
Matthew Williams and Jasmin Tregidga
10. Heb Addysg, Heb Ddawn (Without Education, Without Gift): LGBTQ Youth in Educational Settings in Wales
John Sam Jones
IV. Performing Contemporary Queer Wales
11. Omnisexuality and the City: Exploring National and Sexual Identity through BBC Wales’ Torchwood
Rebecca Williams and Ruth McElroy
12. Queer/Welsh and Welsh/Queer: Performing Hybrid Wales
Stephen Greer
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations and Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Huw Osborne
I. The Queer Past before 1900
1. Queer Loss: Felicia Hemans, (Trans)nationalisms and the Welsh Bard
Daniel Hannah
2. ‘Gender difference is nothing’: Cranogwen and Victorian Wales
Jane Aaron
3. ‘Please don’t whip me this time’: The Passions of George Powell of Nant-Eos
Harry Heuser
4. From Huw Arwystli to Siôn Eirian: Representative Examples of Cadi/Queer Life from Medieval to Twentieth-century Welsh Literature
Mihangel Morgan
II. Placing Queer Wales after 1900
5. ‘A queer kind of fancy’: Women, Same-sex Desire and Nation in Welsh Literature
Kirsti Bohata
6. ‘Not friends / But fellows in a union that ends’: Associations of Welshness and Non-heteronormativity in Edward Thomas
Andrew Webb
7. Fairy-tale Drag and the Transgender Nation in Rhys Davies, Erica Wooff and Jan Morris
Huw Osborne
III. Building Queer Wales Post-Devolution
8. Lesbian Motherhood in the South Wales Valleys: A Narrative Exploration
Alys Einion
9. Living in Fear: Homophobic Hate Crime in Wales
Matthew Williams and Jasmin Tregidga
10. Heb Addysg, Heb Ddawn (Without Education, Without Gift): LGBTQ Youth in Educational Settings in Wales
John Sam Jones
IV. Performing Contemporary Queer Wales
11. Omnisexuality and the City: Exploring National and Sexual Identity through BBC Wales’ Torchwood
Rebecca Williams and Ruth McElroy
12. Queer/Welsh and Welsh/Queer: Performing Hybrid Wales
Stephen Greer
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Daniel G. Williams, Swansea University
“’Groundbreaking’ may be an overused term, but it is the most appropriate description of Queer Wales. Expertly edited and engagingly introduced by Huw Osbourne, this collection of essays is a major contribution to Welsh cultural studies. It constitutes an act of excavation in its tracing of a Welsh ‘queer history’, but the volume does not only construct a tradition of queer writing in Wales. It offers also a far-reaching analysis of that tradition by means of a series of stimulating chapters. Queer Wales is the most wide-ranging contribution that we have yet had to that tradition, which offers a magnificent foundation for further explorations of this rich and diverse field.”
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