Poetry, geography, gender : women rewriting contemporary wales / Alice Entwistle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Entwistle, Alice.

Series:

Gender studies in Wales

Gender studies in Wales.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Welsh authors--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Women authors.

English poetry--Welsh authors.

Wales--Intellectual life--20th century.

Wales.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

xix, 231 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013.

Summary:

Poetry, Geography, Gender explores literary and geographical analysis, cultural criticism and gender politics in the work of such well known literary figures as Gwyneth Lewis, Menna Elfyn, Christine Evans and Gillian Clarke, alongside newer names like Zoë Skoulding and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch. Drawing on her unpublished interviews with many of the featured poets, Alice Entwistle examines how and why their various senses of affiliation with a shared cultural hinterland should encourage us to rethink the relationship between nation, identity and literary aesthetics in post-devolution Wales. Lively and detailed close readings reveal how writers use the textual terrain of the poem, both literally and metaphorically to register and script aesthetic as well as geo-political and cultural-historical change. This innovative critical study thus takes particular interest in the ways in which author, text and territory help to inform and produce each other in the culturally complex and confident small nation that is twenty-first-century Wales. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 On the Border(s): The Interstitial Poetries of the Contact Zone 16

2 'Not without strangeness': Ruth Bidgood's Unhomely Mid Wales 47

3 Frontier Country: Christine Evans 69

4 'A kind of authentic lie': Gwyneth Lewis's English-Language Sequences 92

5 Traverses: Gillian Clarke, Christine Evans, Catherine Fisher and Ireland/Wales 112

6 Wales and/or Thereabouts: Sheenagh Pugh, Wendy Mulford and Zoë Skoulding 135.

ISBN:

0708326692

9780708326695

OCLC:

832605627