The Idiom of Dissent

T. Robin Chapman (ed.)

A collection of essays by new and established academics and representatives of the media & politics which show how protest in twentieth century Wales can be read as cultural history. Topics include the suffragettes, nationalism, campaign for Welsh broadcasting, peace movements, Greenham and its legacy, the parliament for Wales campaign, and Anglo-Welsh poetry.

ISBN: 9781843235903

Price: £9.99

Department: Politics, History, Essays, Welsh History

Format: Paperback

Language: English

No. of pages: 165

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The Idiom of Dissent reveals unexpected facets and aspects of our modern history, re-assesses prominent personalities, and brings to light propaganda "dirty tricks" of breathtaking duplicity and malevolence. An important book, making the contentious Wales of the twentieth century "less of a foreign country".
- H. G. A. Hughes, Gwales

Table of Contents

The authors and their subjects are:
Ursula Masson:-Women versus 'the People' (1906-11)
T. Robin Chapman:-Saunders Lewis's Caernarfon Court Speech of 1936
Damian Walford Davies:-Waldo Williams, 'In Two Fields'
Emily Charette:-The Parliament for Wales campaign, 1950-56
Avril Rolph:-The Peace Movement in Wales in the 1980s
Nick Bourne:-Devolution: a view from the right
Simon Brooks:-The 'racist nationalist' in Wales.

Blurb

WALES has witnessed a succession of campaigns where the appeal to natural justice has been combined with a consciousness of seperate national identity.

With a Foreword by Dafydd Elis-Thomas. Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales, this collection of original and accessible essays looks at the language of protest and propaganda in Wales, especially as used by those engaged in unconstitutional action. It asks how these dissenters give voice to their respective grievances and what this says about their view of what Wales is.