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This book introduces the contribution of modern Welsh literature to our understanding of peace and pacifism – an important and much overlooked subject in Welsh studies. Taking a literary-historical approach to the subject, it reveals how modern Welsh writing opens up history in ways in which historical discourse alone sometimes fails to do. It argues that the concepts of peace, peacefulness and pacifism have played a broader and more complex role in Welsh life than has been recognised, primarily through an influential Welsh-language pacifist intelligentsia. The author reminds us that Welsh pacifism is distinguished from English pacifism by the Welsh language itself, its links with Welsh nationalism and by the fact that it faced challenges and pressures never encountered by English pacifism. Authors discussed in this study include Tony Curtis, George M. Ll. Davies, Pennar Davies, John Eilian, Emyr Humphreys, Glyn Jones, D. Gwenallt Jones, T. Gwynn Jones, T. E. Nicholas, Iorwerth C. Peate, Angharad Price, Ned Thomas, Lily Tobas and Waldo Williams.

Series Editors’ Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Pacifism and Protest:
Mapping Welsh Pacifism
The Bible and the Prison
Peace and Peacefulness:
The Spirit of Pacifism: Waldo Williams and D. Gwenallt Jones
Unpeaceful Voices: Writing the Home Fronts
Conflicting Worlds
Post-Pacifism: Peace and War
A Welsh Pacifist Translation of an English Classic an Afterword
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

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9781786834058

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Pacifism, Peace and Modern Welsh Writing
WRITING WALES IN ENGLISH
CREW series of Critical and Scholarly Studies
General Editors: Kirsti Bohata and Daniel G. Williams ( CREW , Swansea University)
This CREW series is dedicated to Emyr Humphreys, a major figure in the literary culture of modern Wales, a founding patron of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales . Grateful thanks are due to the late Richard Dynevor for making this series possible.
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M. Wynn Thomas, All that is Wales: The Collected Essays of M. Wynn Thomas (978-1-7868-3088-3)
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Pacifism, Peace and Modern Welsh Writing
WRITING WALES IN ENGLISH
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UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2019
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Contents
Series Editors Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Pacifism and Protest
1 Mapping Welsh Pacifism
2 Disruptive Bibles
3 Prison(s)
Peace and Peacefulness
4 The Spirit of Pacifism: Waldo Williams and D. Gwenallt Jones
5 Unpeaceful Voices: Writing the Home Fronts
Conflicting Worlds
6 Post-Pacifism: Peace and War
7 A Welsh Pacifist Translation of an English Classic... an Afterword
Notes
Select Bibliography
Series Editors Preface
The aim of this series, since its founding in 2004 by Professor M. Wynn Thomas, is to publish scholarly and critical work by established specialists and younger scholars that reflects the richness and variety of the English-language literature of modern Wales. The studies published so far have amply demonstrated that concepts, models and discourses current in the best contemporary studies can illuminate aspects of Welsh culture, and have also foregrounded the potential of the Welsh example to draw attention to themes that are often neglected or marginalised in anglophone cultural studies. The series defines and explores that which distinguishes Wales s anglophone literature, challenges critics to develop methods and approaches adequate to the task of interpreting Welsh culture, and invites its readers to locate the process of writing Wales in English within comparative and transnational contexts.
Professor Kirsti Bohata and Professor Daniel G. Williams
Founding Editor: Professor M. Wynn Thomas (2004-15)
CREW ( Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales ) Swansea University
Preface
Pacifism is not passive. It is part of the radicalism of Wales associated with protest, rebellion and insurgency. The popular conviction that there is, or has been, a tradition of pacifism in Wales has been questioned by reputable Welsh historians, who have traced the way in which the peace organisations have waxed and waned in Wales over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But the part that pacifism has played in Welsh life is broader and more complex than the fortunes of the peace movement and is linked to an influential Welsh-language, pacifist intelligentsia.
While this study addresses the organisational history of peace movements in Wales, it is primarily concerned with how pacifism has contributed more widely to Welsh culture, and especially its literature. The part that pacifism has played, and still plays, in the political and cultural evolution of modern Wales is a subject which a literary-historical approach is well equipped to examine and this book breaks new ground in exploring pacifism through texts written in Welsh and English. If anything distinguishes Welsh and English pacifism, it is the Welsh language itself and how Welsh pacifism faces challenges and pressures which never confronted English pacifism. In combining, for the first time, an examination of the history of pacifism with pacifist writing, this study argues that Welsh pacifism and campaigns for peace - through Welsh-language periodicals, pamphlets and literary texts - were brought into existence by a Welsh, and primarily Welsh-language, intelligentsia which it did much, in turn, to constitute.
The texts discussed in this book have been published in English or have been published in translation. The latter is not unproblematic for many reasons, not least because Welsh-English translation is inevitably enmeshed in the wider vicissitudes of Welsh social and cultural politics. Inevitably, these come to the fore in the translation of Welsh pacifist writing into English because pacifists, who historically have been in the vanguard of campaigns in support of nationalism and the Welsh language, have often found themselves confronted by a seemingly impermeable anglicised cultural and political establishment. But in discussing Welsh texts in translation, this book has sought to concentrate on how translators have responded to the subtleties of meaning and the richness of the original Welsh, and have displayed sympathy with the pacifist intentions of the work and its breadth of understanding of pacifism. Beginning with the assumption that readers come to a creative work, whether in translation or in the original language, for the enjoyment of words, the emphasis throughout is on the way in which translators have engaged with particular structures, vocabularies and forms of expression.
It is not news that meaning is always the product of difference between words, but it is particularly important to a discussion of pacifism to keep in mind that the meaning of words is never stable and changes over time. Central to this book is how the concepts of pacifism , peace and war stand revealed differently in different works and acquire fresh significances in new contexts. In conflating literature and history, context inevitably assumes considerable significance and this study examines how literature opens up history in ways in which historical discourse alone sometimes fails to do, while always recognising that for many Welsh- and English-language writers context is often a site of anxiety.
This study argues that through a literary-historical approach, relying on the original Welsh or on translation, the philosophical depth, social realism, psychological momentum and even the doubt and despair involved in