Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements Introduction: The Return of the Native
CULTURE
1. Who Speaks for Wales? 2. Welsh Culture 3. The Arts in Wales 4. Wales and England 5. Community 6. West of Offa's Dyke
HISTORY
1. The Social Significance of 1926
2. Boyhood
3. On Gwyn A. Williams: Three Reviews
The Black Domain
Putting the Welsh in their Place The Shadow of the Dragon
4. Remaking Welsh History
5. For Britain, see Wales
6. Black Mountains
LITERATURE
1. Dylan Thomas's Play for Voices
2. Marxism, Poetry, Wales
3. The Welsh Industrial Novel
4. The Welsh Trilogy and The Volunteers
5. Freedom and a Lack of Confidence
6. The Tenses of Imagination
7. Region and Class in the Novel
8. Working-Class, Proletarian, Socialist: Problems in Some Welsh Novels
9. A Welsh Companion
10. All Things Betray Thee
11. People of the Black Mountains
POLITICS
1. The Importance of Community
2. Are We Becoming More Divided?
3. The Culture of Nations
4. Decentralism and the Politics of Place
5. The Practice of Possibility
Afterword to the Centenary Edition
Index

Promotional Information

• A collection of seminal essays in the of Welsh literary, historical and political studies.
• The book is itself a key chapter in Welsh intellectual history, and an analysis of that history.
• It offers a revisionist Welsh view of Raymond Williams, a critic often viewed as a ‘British Marxist’ or the ‘the English Sartre’.

About the Author

This collection will be suitable for academic, but also political activists. Raymond Williams is a figure of international reputation and importance so there will be a lay readership for the book.