Centenary Edition Raymond Williams

Professor Raymond Williams was a Welsh novelist, academic and critic. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature made significant contributions to the Marxist critique of arts and culture.Daniel G. Williams is Professor of English and Director of the Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales at Swansea University. He is the author of Wales Unchained: Literature, Politics and Identity in the American Century (2015), Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales (2012) and Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: from Arnold to Du Bois (2006).

• PrefaceAcknowledgements Introduction: The Return of the NativeCULTURE1. Who Speaks for Wales? 2. Welsh Culture 3. The Arts in Wales 4. Wales and England 5. Community 6. West of Offa's DykeHISTORY1.The Social Significance of 19262.Boyhood3.On Gwyn A. Williams: Three ReviewsThe Black DomainPutting the Welsh in their Place The Shadow of the Dragon4.Remaking Welsh History5.For Britain, see Wales6.Black MountainsLITERATURE1.Dylan Thomas's Play for Voices2.Marxism, Poetry, Wales3.The Welsh Industrial Novel4.The Welsh Trilogy and The Volunteers5.Freedom and a Lack of Confidence6.The Tenses of Imagination7.Region and Class in the Novel8.Working-Class, Proletarian, Socialist: Problems in Some Welsh Novels9.A Welsh Companion10. All Things Betray Thee11. People of the Black MountainsPOLITICS1.The Importance of Community2.Are We Becoming More Divided?3.The Culture of Nations4.Decentralism and the Politics of Place5.The Practice of PossibilityAfterword to the Centenary EditionIndex