Emyr Humphreys. Diane Green

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      © Diane Green, 2009

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      CONTENTS

General Editor’s Preface

1 Postcolonialism and Wales: the Effects of Cultural Imperialism

2 ‘A serious Welsh novelist’: Redressing the Balance

3 The Emergence of Humphreys as a Postcolonial Writer

       4 The Consolidation of Strategies in Outside the House of Baal

       5 Strategies of Resistance: the Use of Indigenous Myth

       6 Strategies of Resistance: the Use of Indigenous History in ‘The Land of the Living’ Sequence

       7 Strategies of Resistance: the Use of History in the Independent Novels of the 1980s and 1990s

       8 Monstering and Disabling: Paradigms and Tropes of Dispossession

       9 Postscript: Speaking Welsh in English – a Postcolonial Purpose

       Notes

       A Selected Bibliography of Emyr Humphreys’s Fiction and Essays

       A Selected Bibliography of Writing on Emyr Humphreys’s Works

       Bibliography