The Centenary Edition Raymond Williams
Who Speaks for Wales? Nation, Culture, Identity
Distributed for University of Wales Press
432 pages
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Return of the Native ix xv
CULTURE
1. Who Speaks for Wales?
3
2. Welsh Culture 5
3. The Arts in Wales 12
4. Wales and England 16
5. Community 27
6. West of Offa’s Dyke 34
HISTORY
1. The Social Significance of 1926 39
2. Boyhood 45
3. On Gwyn A. Williams: Three Reviews 62
The Black Domain
Putting the Welsh in their Place The Shadow of the Dragon
4. Remaking Welsh History 69
5. Black Mountains 73
LITERATURE
1. Marxism, Poetry, Wales 81
2. The Welsh Industrial Novel 95
3. The Welsh Trilogy and The Volunteers 112
4. Freedom and a Lack of Confidence 143
5. Working-Class, Proletarian, Socialist: Problems in Some
Welsh Novels 147
6. All Things Betray Thee 159
7. People of the Black Mountains 165
POLITICS
1. The Importance of Community 177
2. Are We Becoming More Divided? 186
3. The Culture of Nations 191
4. Decentralism and the Politics of Place 204
5. The Practice of Possibility 212
Notes on the Texts 221
Index 239
Introduction: The Return of the Native ix xv
CULTURE
1. Who Speaks for Wales?
3
2. Welsh Culture 5
3. The Arts in Wales 12
4. Wales and England 16
5. Community 27
6. West of Offa’s Dyke 34
HISTORY
1. The Social Significance of 1926 39
2. Boyhood 45
3. On Gwyn A. Williams: Three Reviews 62
The Black Domain
Putting the Welsh in their Place The Shadow of the Dragon
4. Remaking Welsh History 69
5. Black Mountains 73
LITERATURE
1. Marxism, Poetry, Wales 81
2. The Welsh Industrial Novel 95
3. The Welsh Trilogy and The Volunteers 112
4. Freedom and a Lack of Confidence 143
5. Working-Class, Proletarian, Socialist: Problems in Some
Welsh Novels 147
6. All Things Betray Thee 159
7. People of the Black Mountains 165
POLITICS
1. The Importance of Community 177
2. Are We Becoming More Divided? 186
3. The Culture of Nations 191
4. Decentralism and the Politics of Place 204
5. The Practice of Possibility 212
Notes on the Texts 221
Index 239
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