ENGLISH

Embodying Identity : Representations of the Body in Welsh Literature

By Harri Garrod Roberts

Book information

Publisher
University of Wales Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780708322376, 9780708321690
LCC
PR8952 .R63 2015
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1023 kB (1048046 bytes)
Series
Writing Wales in English
Edition
1
Pages
210\210
Time added
2023-08-07 09:31:46
English literature -- Women authors -- History and

Description

Since the time of Freud, some of the most radical innovators within critical theory have stressed the importance of the body and its representation to the constitution of subjectivity. This book explores some of the theoretical debates surrounding the body, and assesses its value as a critical concept, through an analysis of the body’s representation both in Welsh literary texts in English, and discourse about Wales more generally. Combining psychoanalytic with more culturally orientated approaches to the body, the book offers an historically informed account of the body that analyses its role in the construction and contestation of identity at a cultural as well as individual level, contributing in a new and radical way to the rapidly expanding critical literature concerned with exploring the construction of identity in a Welsh cultural context.

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