Professor Raymond Williams was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. As an influential Marxist theorist, his contribution to cultural critique in the twentieth century is significant, with keyworks The Long Revolution (1961), Marxism and Literature (1977) and Writing in Society (1983).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).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Return of the NativeCULTURE1. Who Speaks for Wales?2. Welsh Culture3. The Arts in Wales4. Wales and England5. Community6. West of Offa’s DykeHISTORY1. The Social Significance of 19262. Boyhood3. On Gwyn A. Williams: Three ReviewsThe Black DomainPutting the Welsh in their PlaceThe 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. Going into Europe2. The Importance of Community3. Are We Becoming More Divided?4. The Culture of Nations5. Decentralism and the Politics of Place6. The Practice of PossibilityAfterword to the Centenary EditionIndex

Professor Raymond Williams was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. As an influential Marxist theorist, his contribution to cultural critique in the twentieth century is significant, with keyworks The Long Revolution (1961), Marxism and Literature (1977) and Writing in Society (1983).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).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Return of the NativeCULTURE1. Who Speaks for Wales?2. Welsh Culture3. The Arts in Wales4. Wales and England5. Community6. West of Offa’s DykeHISTORY1. The Social Significance of 19262. Boyhood3. On Gwyn A. Williams: Three ReviewsThe Black DomainPutting the Welsh in their PlaceThe 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. Going into Europe2. The Importance of Community3. Are We Becoming More Divided?4. The Culture of Nations5. Decentralism and the Politics of Place6. The Practice of PossibilityAfterword to the Centenary EditionIndex

Professor Raymond Williams was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. As an influential Marxist theorist, his contribution to cultural critique in the twentieth century is significant, with keyworks The Long Revolution (1961), Marxism and Literature (1977) and Writing in Society (1983).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).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Return of the NativeCULTURE1. Who Speaks for Wales?2. Welsh Culture3. The Arts in Wales4. Wales and England5. Community6. West of Offa’s DykeHISTORY1. The Social Significance of 19262. Boyhood3. On Gwyn A. Williams: Three ReviewsThe Black DomainPutting the Welsh in their PlaceThe 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. Going into Europe2. The Importance of Community3. Are We Becoming More Divided?4. The Culture of Nations5. Decentralism and the Politics of Place6. The Practice of PossibilityAfterword to the Centenary EditionIndex