Davies was the holder of a complex identity: he was a gay man who grew up as a shopkeeper's son in the Rhondda who left Wales to write about his homeland in England. This book unravels a national experience that is deeply bound up in complex negotiations of class, sexuality, and gender and follows a career that was predicted to be that of "e;the representative Welshman"e;. The book is divided into three sections: the first begins with Davies's childhood in Blaenclydach and the ways in which his memories of his childhood reinforce continuing themes in his stories and novels; the second will place Davies in literary London and address Davies's struggle to enter the privileged circles of literary production, circulation, and reception; the final section considers the established Davies of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.
| ISBN: | 9780708322420 |
| Publication date: | 1st July 2009 |
| Author: | Osborne, Huw Edwin |
| Publisher: | University of Wales Press |
| Format: | Ebook (PDF) |