Denial and Demise?: Reforming National Identity in Welsh Culture after Brexit. Issue 5 (2nd November 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Denial and Demise?: Reforming National Identity in Welsh Culture after Brexit. Issue 5 (2nd November 2018)
- Main Title:
- Denial and Demise?
- Authors:
- Schofield, Emma
- Abstract:
- Abstract : In 2016 Welsh artist Iwan Bala launched a controversial exhibition entitled 'Dyma Gariad, fel y Moroedd' (Here is a Love, Deep as Oceans), in which he depicted a series of startling maps and caricatures about Brexit, from the perspective of a Welsh Remain voter. The collection, which included distorted maps of the United Kingdom and Europe, was described by Bala as a direct response to what he termed the 'political madness' of the recent Brexit referendum. Among the more controversial pieces was a crudely-drawn map of England and Wales, accompanied by an accusation that both nations were effectively 'self-harming' in a bid to 'take control of [their] own demise', along with other images in which Wales had become severed from the rest of Europe. This article will explore whether Bala's overt objections to Brexit have been seen more broadly across Welsh culture since June 2016 and how Welsh writers and artists might seek to resist the form of inner-emigration feared by Bala. Looking ahead, the article will consider whether, as Wales withdraws politically from the European Union, Welsh culture will adopt an inward gaze, or follow Bala's lead in rejecting the concept of self-isolation and using their creative work to reassert a new sense of Welsh identity in the wake of Brexit.
- Is Part Of:
- Third text. Volume 32:Issue 5/6(2018)
- Journal:
- Third text
- Issue:
- Volume 32:Issue 5/6(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 32, Issue 5/6 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 32
- Issue:
- 5/6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0032-NaN-0000
- Page Start:
- 739
- Page End:
- 746
- Publication Date:
- 2018-11-02
- Subjects:
- Emma Schofield -- Brexit -- Iwan Bala -- devolution -- referendums -- national Identity -- Senedd -- Wales -- Welsh language -- Raymond Williams
Art and society -- Periodicals
Art -- Developing countries -- 20th century -- Periodicals
Developing countries -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals
700.91724 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09528822.asp ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctte20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/09528822.2018.1558649 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0952-8822
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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