Beschreibung:
Queer Wales provides varied perspectives on queer history, culture, politics and life in Wales, launching an important discussion and suggesting that perhaps Wales has always been a bit of a queer place to live.
This book provides varied perspectives on queer history, culture, politics and life in Wales. It addresses the queering of the Welsh language in examples from the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, acquainting readers with such figures as Felicia Hemans, George Powell, and Edward Thomas; and it explores forms of lesbian belonging, the possibilities of transgender Wales, the communities of queer Welsh television and film, and the many places of the queer Welsh ‘home’. This book for the first time brings together work by a wide variety of authors working in varied areas of queer Welsh culture; its chapters mark the beginning of what will be an ongoing discussion of sexual and national life in Wales with essays that launch an important discussion of queer life and suggesting that perhaps Wales has always been a bit of a queer place to live.
I. The Queer Past Before 1900Queer Loss: Felicia Hemans, (trans)nationalism, and the Welsh BardDaniel Hannah‘Gender difference is nothing’: Cranogwen and Victorian WalesJane Aaron‘Please don’t whip me this time’: The Passions of George Powell of Nant-EosHarry HeuserFrom Huw Arwystli to Siôn Eirian: Representitive Examples of Cadi/Queer Life from Medieval to Twentieth Century Welsh LiteratureMihangel MorganII. Placing Queer Wales after 1900‘A queer kind of fancy’: women, same-sex desire, and nation in Welsh literatureKirsti Bohata‘Not friends / But fellows in a union that ends’: Associations of Welshness and Non-heteronormativity in Edward ThomasAndrew WebbFairy Tale Drag and the Transgender Nation in Rhys Davies, Erica Wooff, and Jan Morris.Huw OsborneIII. Building Queer Wales Post-DevolutionLesbian Motherhood in the South Wales Valleys: A Narrative ExplorationAlys EinionLiving in Fear: Homophobic Hate Crime in WalesMatthew Williams and Jasmin TregidgaHeb addysg, heb ddawn (Without education, without gift): LGBTQ Youth in Educational Settings in WalesJohn Sam JonesIV. Performing Contemporary Queer WalesOmnisexuality and the City: Exploring National and Sexual Identity through BBC Wales’ TorchwoodRebecca Williams and Ruth McElroyQueer/Welsh and Welsh/Queer: Performing Hybrid WalesStephen Greer
