A Hundred Years of Fiction

Dadansoddiad manwl o ffuglen Saesneg yng Nghymru yn ystod yr 20fed ganrif, gan archwilio sut y mae llenorion y ganrif wedi ymateb i faterion eu cyfnod, economi a gwleidyddiaeth, bywyd gwledig a diwydiannol, hunaniaeth Gymreig a benywaidd.

'As the first critical study of twentieth-century English-language fiction from Wales, A Hundred Years of Fiction is an indispensable contribution to the field...one can but hope that an intelligent, well-argued study such as this will inform opinion and provoke wider discussion of post-colonial Wales, at home and abroad.'(Planet) 'Stephen Knight's book has succeeded in launching with a bang the new critical series 'Writing Wales in English': the systematic thoroughness of its adoption of postcolonial theoretical perspectives in analyzing Welsh material has provoked an outcry. Welsh Labour historian Dai Smith ...damns it as a 'farrago' of nonsense... '...an important and definitive work.' www .gwales.com