Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration

Branwen's Starling
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-230-36284-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4091 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loparo, Kenneth A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.