Who Speaks for Wales?

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 Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales (2012) and Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: from Arnold to Du Bois (2006). 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.

"Anyone interested...in literary-historical criticism from the Left, in the issues of Welshness and of the tradition of a border country with "Yookay" specifically, or in the problems of regional and national identity generally, will want to read Who Speaks For Wales?" Werner Sollors, author. ' Here are two important new books on culture. identity, diversity and social change in Wales, opening up new critical perspectives based on political, demographic, sociological and literary research.' Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 'Skillfully assembled ... invaluable collection ... added bonus of this captivating collection is the elegant and incisive essay with which Daniel Williams introduces the volume. Here, in a sure-footed display of scholarship and engagement ... exceptionally stimulating ... admirable book ... '(Autumn 2003)