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- Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales, 1845-1945:
- ISBN
- 9780708319871
- EAN
- 9780708319871
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Black Skin, Blue Books : African Americans and Wales 1845-1945
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Subject
- American / African American, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Series
- University of Wales Press-Writing Wales in English Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 17 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 357 Pages
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Williams analyses and compares the ways in which African Americans and the Welsh have defined themselves as minorities within larger nation states (the UK and US). The study is grounded in examples of actual friendships and cultural exchanges between African Americans and the Welsh, such as Paul Robesons connections with the socialists of the Welsh mining communities, and novelist Ralph Ellisons stories about his experiences as a GI stationed in wartime Swansea. This wide ranging book draws on literary, historical, visual and musical sources to open up new avenues of research in Welsh and African American studies.
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Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
ISBN-10
0708319874
ISBN-13
9780708319871
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117264667
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Publication Name
Black Skin, Blue Books : African Americans and Wales 1845-1945
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
American / African American, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Series
University of Wales Press-Writing Wales in English Ser.
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
357 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Pr8957
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Daniel G. Williams explores passionately what at first blush seem like strange bedfellows--African Americans and the Welsh--until one dips inside this surprising book. Emerging from its pages is an intertwined but twisted history of struggle against discursive imperialism over centuries of misunderstanding and misapplied notions of who is literate, who is human. Williams reveals that African American and Welsh literary politics are not only connected by a discourse of Blackness, but by Welsh and Black performative traditions., Williams analyses and compares the ways in which African Americans and the Welsh have defined themselves as minorities within larger nation states (the UK and US). The study is grounded in examples of actual friendships and cultural exchanges between African Americans and the Welsh, such as Paul Robesons connections with the socialists of the Welsh mining communities, and novelist Ralph Ellisons stories about his experiences as a GI stationed in wartime Swansea. This wide ranging book draws on literary, historical, visual and musical sources to open up new avenues of research in Welsh and African American studies., Daniel G. Williams explores passionately what at first blush seem like strange bedfellows--African Americans and the Welsh--until one dips inside this surprising book. Emerging from its pages is an intertwined but twisted history of struggle against discursive imperialism over centuries of misunderstanding and misapplied notions of who is literate, who is human. Williams reveals that African American and Welsh literary politics are not only connected by a discourse of Blackness, but by Welsh and Black performative traditions., Daniel G. Williams's Black Skin, Blue Books is written with grace and uncommon insight. It is a model for transnational scholarship that opens up a new tributary of literary connection. By exposing moments of 'contact and comparison' between the literatures of black America and of Wales, Williams offers up surprising and necessary insights that defy our assumptions about race, place, and nation. I can think of few books that better illustrate the capacity of authors from very different parts of the world to arrive at what Ralph Ellison once termed 'those abiding patterns of experience' that help to define our shared sense of humanity., Daniel G. Williams explores passionately what at first blush seem like strange bedfellows-African Americans and the Welsh-until one dips inside this surprising book. Emerging from its pages is an intertwined but twisted history of struggle against discursive imperialism over centuries of misunderstanding and misapplied notions of who is literate, who is human. Williams reveals that African American and Welsh literary politics are not only connected by a discourse of Blackness, but by Welsh and Black performative traditions., The connections between the slave trade and its abolition in the United States and England have been amply documented. Those between African Americans and Celtic peoples and cultures, however, remain under-explored. Black Skin, Blue Books begins with a comparative chapter on the Victorian era in Wales and African America, before moving on to modernism and to the connections between Paul Robeson, Ralph Ellison, and the Welsh. It fills a void that most of us did not even know existed! This compelling and well-researched book is a major, fresh contribution to Black Atlantic Studies.
Table of Content
General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Illustrations Introduction 1. Black Skin, Blue Books: Frederick Douglass, Abolitionism and Victorian Wales 2. 'In the Wide Margin': Modernism and Ethnic Renaissance in Harlem and Wales 3. 'They feel me a part of that land': Paul Robeson, Race and the Making of Modern Wales 4. The Invisible Man's Welsh Routes: Ralph Ellison in Wartime Wales Conclusion: 1945 Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2012
Dewey Decimal
820.9942909034
Dewey Edition
22
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