Product Description
by Kirsti Bohata (Editor)
This ground-breaking volume makes visible a long and diverse tradition of queer writing from Wales. Spanning genres from ghost stories and science fiction to industrial literature and surrealist modernism, these are stories of love, loss, and transformation. The first anthology of its kind in Wales, which finally sheds light on a largely hidden queer cultural history with the careful selection of over 40 short stories (1837-2018) including work by John Sam Jones, Sian James, Rhys Davies, Deborah Kay Davies, Aled Islwyn, and Kate North. New translations of Kate Roberts, Mihangel Morgan, Jane Edwards, Pennar Davies, and Dylan Huw make available their compelling stories for the first time to a non-Welsh speaking readership.
Author Biography
Kirsti Bohata is a Professor of English Literature and the co-Director of the Centre for Research into the English Language and Literature at Swansea University, Wales. Her books include Postcolonialism Revisited: Writing Wales in English. Huw Osborne is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Culture, and Communication at the Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada. His books include Queer Wales: The History, Culture and Politics of Queer Life in Wales. Mihangel Morgan is a writer and academic. He won the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 1993 and has published many poems, stories and novels, including Melog. He writes a regular column for the Welsh language magazine O' r Pedwar Gwynt.
