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Examining how we interpret Welshness today, this volume brings together fourteen essays covering a full range of representations of Welsh mythology, folklore, and ritual in popular culture. Topics covered include the twentieth-century fantasy fiction of Evangeline Walton, the Welsh presence in the films of Walt Disney, Welshness in folk music, video games, and postmodern literature. Together, these interdisciplinary essays explore the ways that Welsh motifs have proliferated in this age of cultural cross-pollination, spreading worldwide the myths of one small British nation.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Re-Imagining Wales
AUDREY L. BECKER and KRISTIN NOONE
Celtic Studies and Modern Fantasy Literature
C.W. SULLIVAN III
"The Rough, Savage Strength of Earth": Evangeline Walton's Human Heroes and Mythic Spaces
KRISTIN NOONE
Branwen's Shame: Voicing the Silent Feminine in Evangeline Walton's The Children of Llyr
NICOLE A. THOMAS
Disavowing Maternity in Evangeline Walton's The Virgin and the Swine: Fantasy Meets the Social Protest Fiction of the 1930s
DEBORAH HOOKER
"An Age-Old Memory": Arthur Machen's Celtic Redaction of the Welsh Revival in The Great Return
GEOFFREY REITER
Magical Goods, "Orphaned" Exchanges, Punishment and Power in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi
SUSANA BROWER
The Hand at the Window: Twm Siôn Cati, the Welsh Colonial Trickster
JONATHAN EVANS and STEPHEN KNIGHT
An Irregular Union: Exploring the Welsh Connection to a Popular African-American Wedding Ritual
TYLER D. PARRY
Constructing Myth in Music: Heather Dale, King Arthur and "Culhwch and Olwen"
MEGAN MACALYSTRE
Torchwood's "Spooky-Do's": A Popular Culture Perspective on Celtic Mythology
LYNNETTE R. PORTER
Everyday Magic: Howl's Moving Castle and Fantasy as Sociopolitical Commentary
CAROLYNN E. WILCOX
Loosely Based: The Problems of Adaptation in Disney's The Black Cauldron
JEFF HICKS
We're Not in Cymru Anymore: What's Really Happening in the Online Mabinogi
CLAY KINCHEN SMITH
Temporality, Teleology and the Mabinogi in the Twenty-First Century
AUDREY L. BECKER
Further Reading
About the Contributors
Index
