Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration: Branwen's Starling

ISBN-13: 9780230362840 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 228 str.

Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

Opis

Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration examines the prison literature of certain iconic Welsh authors whose political lives and creative writings are linked to ideas about Wales and the Welsh language, the nature of political activism, and the function of incarceration.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. D. Gwenallt Jones 3. Saunders Lewis 4. T. E. Nicholas 5. Waldo Williams 6. Meg Elis 7. Menna Elfyn 8. Angharad Tomos 9. Conclusions

O autorze

Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost is Professor at the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, UK. He is an authority on linguistic minorities and language planning. His previous books include Language, Identity and Conflict: A Comparative Study of Language in Ethnic Conflict in Europe and Eurasia, The Irish Language in Ireland from Goídel to Globalisation, Language and the City, and Jailtacht: The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland.