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标题：“It’ll be our own little Wales out there”: re-situating Bardsey Island for post-devolution Wales in Fflur Dafydd’s Twenty Thousand Saints
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作者：Kieron Smith ; Jon Anderson ; Kirsti Bohata 等
期刊名称：Island Studies Journal
印刷版ISSN：1715-2593
出版年度：2017
卷号：12
期号：2
页码：317-328
出版社：Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island
摘要：This article examines the ways in which Fflur Dafydd’s 2008 novel Twenty ThousandSaints negotiates notions of the island space in a post-devolution Welsh context. It argues that the novelis a rich site in the analysis of the literary dimension of what Baldacchino describes as the “island-mainland[…] dialectic” (Baldacchino, 2006, p. 10). Set on Bardsey, a real small island off the coast of north Wales,the novel employs a multiple-character narrative to explore and critique the various ways in whichBardsey has been constructed in the Welsh cultural imagination. In particular, the novel exploresthe idea of the island as a queer space. It does so in a way that posits Bardsey in dialectical relation toan ongoing, politically dynamic Welsh mainland. The article suggests that the novel can be read asa mainland appropriation of the island in the post-devolution era. Yet this is simultaneously an enablingimaginative act that confirms the power of literature to create new imaginative geographies.
关键词：Bardsey Island; Fflur Dafydd; island studies; literary geography; novel; queer space;Twenty Thousand Saints; Wales