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Who Speaks for Wales?

Nation, Culture, Identity

Author(s) Raymond Williams

Paperback - £18.99

Language: English

Genre(s): Politics, Wales Studies

March 2003 · 288 pages ·216x138mm

· Paperback - 9780708317846

About the Book
About the Author(s)

Who Speaks for Wales? is the first collection of Raymond Williams' writings on Welsh culture, literature, history and politics. It brings together material that has long been overlooked by commentators on his work, and emphasises both the centrality of his Welshness to his work as a whole, and the continuing relevance of his thought for post-devolution Wales. Daniel Williams's introduction offers an original reading of Raymond Williams's career from a Welsh perspective and underlines the ways in which his engagement with Welsh issues makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates on nation, race and class. Who Speaks for Wales? will be essential reading for everyone interested in questions of identity, nationhood and ethnicity in Britain and beyond.

Author(s): Raymond Williams

Professor Raymond Williams was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. As an influential Marxist theorist, his contribution to cultural critique in the twentieth century is significant, with keyworks The Long Revolution (1961), Marxism and Literature (1977) and Writing in Society (1983). Daniel G. Williams is Professor of English and Director of the Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales at Swansea University. He is the author of Wales Unchained: Literature, Politics and Identity in the American Century (2015), Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales (2012) and Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: from Arnold to Du Bois (2006).