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29 - English Language and Literature
Swansea University
Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales, 1845 - 1945
7000 of the 24,000 words in Chapter 4 on Ralph Ellison appeared in' "If We Only Had Some of What They Have": Ralph Ellison in Wales', Comparative American Studies, 4:1 (March 2006) 25 - 48. Submitted for RAE 2008.
This book is based on detailed knowledge of two literary (Welsh and African American) traditions and engages extensively with Welsh and English language sources. Chapter 1 relies on extensive readings in slave narratives and the Welsh periodical press. Chapters 2 and 3 draw on research carried out at the the Schomburg Institute (Harlem) and the National Library of Wales. Chapter 4 draws on research in the Ralph Ellison Archive at the Library of Congress. The volume’s underlying thesis is complex, for it aims to develop a methodology allowing for the comparative analysis of two very different (but related) cultural contexts.