Emyr Humphreys
A Postcolonial Novelist
Distributed for University of Wales Press
- 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: Paradigm and Tropes of Dispossession
9. Post script: 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
Index
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
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