Rediscovering Margiad Evans : marginality, gender and illness / edited by Kirsti Bohata and Katie Gramich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bohata, Kirsti.

Gramich, Katie.

Series:

Gender studies in Wales.

Gender studies in Wales

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evans, Margiad, 1909-1958--Criticism and interpretation.

Evans, Margiad.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays rediscovers and reassesses the extraordinary literary legacy of the border writer, Margiad Evans (1909-48) - novelist, poet, short story writer and autobiographer.

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; The Archivist's Tale: Primary Sources for the Study of Margiad Evans; 'Two Nations at War Within it': Marriage as Metaphor in Margiad Evans's Country Dance (1932); 'Born to a Million Dismemberments': Female Hybridity in the Border Writing of Margiad Evans, Hilda Vaughan and Mary Webb; Gothic Borderlands: The Hauntology of Place in the Fiction of Margiad Evans; Time, Memory and Identity in the Short Stories of Margiad Evans; Margiad Evans and Eudora Welty: A Confluence of Imaginations

The Apparitional Lover: Homoerotic and Lesbian Imagery in the Writing of Margiad Evans'Herstory' of Epilepsy in a Creative Writer: The Case of Margiad Evans; Warding off the Real: The Recreation of Self in Autobiography and A Ray of Darkness; 'The Human Tune': Margiad Evans and the Frustrating Fifties; Margiad Evans: Memory, Fiction and Autobiography; 'Eternity is Now my Mood': A View of the Later Writings of Margiad Evans; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780708325612

0708325610

9781299201453

1299201458

OCLC:

827207953