Travelling Ideas Between Wales and Brittany
Travelling Ideas Between Wales and Brittany
Author(s): Heather WilliamsSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, British Literature
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Wales; Brittany; France; minoritized cultures; periphery-periphery relations; travel writing; cultural exchange; transnationalism
Summary/Abstract: This article asks what uses two minoritized cultures, Brittany and Wales, make of each other. Travel writing provides a privileged point of access to the issue, and the motif of mutual understanding between the two cultures is a key way in. Analysis of this motif in Welsh-language travel accounts to Brittany by O.M. Edwards, Tro yn Llydaw [A Tour in Brittany] (1888), Ambrose Bebb, Llydaw [Brittany] (1929), Pererindodau [Pilgrimages] (1941), and Dyfnallt, O Ben Tir Llydaw [From the Headland of Brittany] (1934) sheds light on the issues of cultural translation, periphery-periphery relations and Wales’s Europeanness.
Journal: VTU Review: Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Issue Year: 2/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 47-54
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English