All That Is Wales by M. Wynn Thomas - 9781786830890

All That Is WalesThe Collected Essays of M. Wynn Thomas\nAuthor(s): M. Wynn Thomas\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Wales Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: University of Wales Press\nISBN-13: 9781786830890, 978-1786830890\nSynopsis\nWales may be small, but culturally it is richly varied. The aim in this collection of essays on a number of English-language authors from Wales is to offer a sample of the countrys internal diversity. To that end, the authors examined range from the exotic Lynette Roberts (Argentinean by birth, but of Welsh descent) and the English-born Peggy Ann Whistler who opted for new, Welsh identity as Margiad Evans, to Nigel Heseltine, whose bizarre stories of the antics of the decaying squierarchy of the Welsh border country remain largely unknown, and the Utah-based poet Leslie Norris, who brings out the bicultural character of Wales in his Welsh-English translations. The result is a portrait of Wales as a micro-cosmopolitan country, and the volume is .