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Ron Berry (1920–97) is one of the most remarkably astute yet relatively neglected twentieth-century Rhondda writers. An avid walker, birdwatcher, ‘potcher’, sportsman and miner, Berry is the product of a distinctive Rhondda landscape; the formidable peaks of Pen Pych and Cefn Nant y Gwair were to be a continuing source of inspiration for him in his writing. His idiosyncratic viewpoints, of which there are many, are reflected in both his memoir and fiction. As the first sustained critical study of his work, this collection seeks a literal, physical and chronological ‘zooming-outwards’, from the man himself to the personal and literary geographies and communities in which he was posited, to his creative legacy.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of abbreviations
Ways Out: Ways In: Ways Back An Introduction
Barbara Prys-Williams, History is what you live: Ron Berry's rumination on his conflicted life and times
Tony Brown, A Man’s World: The Short Fiction of Ron Berry
John Perrott Jenkins, Reading Hector Bebb: Masculinity and Mythic Paradigms in So Long, Hector Bebb (1970)
Daryl Leeworthy, The Full-Time Amateur: Sport in Ron Berry’s south-Walian Imagination
Georgia Burdett, ‘The Inadequates’: Ron Berry and Disability
Sarah Morse, ‘Green always comes back’: Ron Berry’s ecocentric writing
Tomos Owen, ‘Land of my Feathers’: Ron Berry and Niall Griffiths on the Wing
John Pikoulis, ‘Word-of-mouth cultures cease in cemeteries’
Afterword
Bibliography

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Literary Criticism

20th century

Irish

English

European

Welsh

Scottish

Wales

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	01 février 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781786835291
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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fight and flight

WRITING WALES IN ENGLISH

CREWseries of Critical and Scholarly Studies General Editors: Kirsti Bohata and Daniel G. Williams (CREW, Swansea University)

ThisCREWseries is dedicated to Emyr Humphreys, a major ﬁgure in the literary culture of modern Wales, a founding patron of theCentre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales. Grateful thanks are due to the late Richard Dynevor for making this series possible.

Other titles in the series Stephen Knight,A Hundred Years of Fiction(9780708318461) Barbara PrysWilliams,TwentiethCentury Autobiography(9780708318911) Kirsti Bohata,Postcolonialism Revisited(9780708318928) Chris Wigginton,Modernism from the Margins(9780708319277) Linden Peach,Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women’s Fiction(9780708319987) Sarah Prescott,EighteenthCentury Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons(9780708320532) Hywel Dix,After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the BreakUp of Britain(9780708321539) Matthew Jarvis,Welsh Environments in Contemporary Welsh Poetry(9780708321522) Harri Garrod Roberts,Embodying Identity: Representations of the Body in Welsh Literature(9780708321690) Diane Green,Emyr Humphreys: A Postcolonial Novelist(9780708322178) M. Wynn Thomas,In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales(9780708322253) Linden Peach,The Fiction of Emyr Humphreys: Contemporary Critical Perspectives(9780708322161) Daniel Westover,R. S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography(9780708324134) Jasmine Donahaye,Whose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine(9780708324837) Judy Kendall,Edward Thomas: The Origins of His Poetry(9780708324035) Damian Walford Davies,Cartographies of Culture: New Geographies of Welsh Writing in English(9780708324769) Daniel G. Williams,Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales 1845–1945 (9780708319871) Andrew Webb,Edward Thomas and World Literary Studies: Wales, Anglocentrism and English Literature(9780708326220) Alyce von Rothkirch,J. O. Francis, realist drama and ethics: Culture, place and nation (9781783160709) Rhian Barfoot,Liberating Dylan Thomas: Rescuing a Poet from PsychoSexual Servitude (9781783161843) Daniel G. Williams,Wales Unchained: Literature, Politics and Identity in the American Century(9781783162123) M. Wynn Thomas,The Nations of Wales 1890–1914(9781783168378) Richard McLauchlan,Saturday’s Silence: R. S. Thomas and Paschal Reading (9781783169207) Bethan M. Jenkins,Between Wales and England: Anglophone Welsh Writing of the Eighteenth Century(9781786830296)

Fight and Flight Essays on Ron Berry

edited by Georgia Burdett and Sarah Morse

WRITING WALES IN ENGLISH

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2020

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ISBN eISBN

9781786835284 9781786835291

The right of the Contributors to be identiﬁed as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Typeset in Wales by Eira Fenn Gaunt, Cardiff Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Melksham

For Ron 1920–1997 ‘Boy, inseparable from man in his time, his place’

Ron Berry Photograph by John Pikoulis

Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors

Con

Ways Out: Ways In: Ways Back: An introduction Dai Smith

History Is What You Live:Ron Berry’s Rumination on His Conﬂicted Life and Times Barbara PrysWilliams

A Man’s World: The Short Fiction of Ron Berry Tony Brown

ix xi xiii xv

Reading Hector Bebb: Masculinity and Mythic Paradigms inSo Long, Hector Bebb(1970) John Perrott Jenkins 49

The FullTime Amateur: Sport in Ron Berry’s South Walian Imagination Daryl Leeworthy

‘The Inadequates’: Ron Berry and Disability Georgia Burdett

viii

‘Green always comes back’: Ron Berry’s Ecocentric Writing Sarah Morse

Land of My Feathers: Ron Berry and Niall Grifﬁths on the Wing Tomos Owen

‘Wordofmouth cultures cease in cemeteries’ John Pikoulis

Afterword, by Ron Berry’s children

Bibliography Index

115

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165

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181 189

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 potentialof 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