Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Cymru and Wales
  • 1. Emyr Humphreys, 'Manawydan'
  • 2. Hywel Teifi Edwards, 'Y Pentre Gwyn' and 'Manteg' : from blessed plot to hotspot
  • 3. Tony Brown, 'Stories from foreign countries' : the short stories of Kate Roberts and Margiad Evans
  • 4. Jasmine Donahaye, 'Gartref
  • bron' : adversity and refuge in the Jewish literature of Wales
  • Pt. II. Engendering Wales
  • 5. Gillian Clarke, 'The accompanist'
  • 6. Kirsti Bohata, en-gendering a new Wales : female allegories, home rule and imperialism 1890-1910
  • 7. Alyce von Rothkirch, 'There's a change come over the valley' : the crisis of masculinism in early twentieth-century Welsh drama in English
  • 8. Jane Aaron, valleys' women writing
  • Pt. III. American perspectives
  • 9. Menna Elfyn, 'Perlio Geiriau', translated by Joseph P. Clancy
  • 10. Helen Vendler, Under milk wood : lists, made and undone
  • 11. Barbara Prys-Williams, web of connection : Denise Levertov's construction of origins
  • 12. Daniel Williams, 'For old Tom read Uncle Tom' : Emlyn Williams and Ralph Ellison
  • Pt. IV. Translations
  • 13. Tony Conran, 'Civilization in waiting'
  • 14. Dafydd Johnston, early translations of Dafydd ap Gwilym
  • 15. Melinda Gray, Uncle Tom's Welsh dress : ethnicity, authority and translation
  • 16. Michael Cronin, global questions and local visions : a microcosmopolitan perspective
  • Pt. V. Welsh correspondences
  • 17. Grahame Davies, 'Cyfannu'
  • 18. Jeremy Hooker, poetic lands and borderlands : Henry Vaughan to Robert Frost
  • 19. James A. Davies, 'In a different place,/ changed' : Dannie Abse, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot and Wales
  • 20. Katie Gramich, 'Extravagant and wheeling stranger[s]' : Dylan Thomas, Derek Walcott and the house of English literature
  • Pt. VI. Epilogue
  • 21. Seamus Heaney, 'Brothers'
  • Pt. VII. Bibliography
  • 22. Rhian Reynolds, Bibliography of M. Wynn Thomas (1970-2003)