An Open Door

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Cydnabyddir yn eang fod hanes Cymru wedi tyfu yn greadigaeth llenorion Rhamantaidd Seisnig, ond mae'r gyfrol hon yn troi hynny ben i waered, trwy droi golwg Cymru ar weddill y byd. Mae'r newid hwn yn amserol: mae ymadawiad Prydain â'r Undeb Ewropeaidd yn peri holi cwestiynau am berthynas Cymru â'i gorffennol, gwladwriaeth Prydain, Ewrop a thu hwnt.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

The history of Wales as a destination and confection of English Romantic writers is well-known, but this book reverses the process, turning a Welsh gaze on the rest of the world. This shift is timely: the severing of Britain from the European Union asks questions of Wales about its relationship to its own past, to the British state, to Europe and beyond.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Steven Lovatt is the author of Birdsong in a Time of Silence (Particular Books, 2021), and over the last decade his critical articles on Welsh literature, particularly Dorothy Edwards and Margiad Evans, have been published in New Welsh Review , Planet , Critical Survey , the AWWE Yearbook and the Literary Encyclopaedia . He reviews poetry for 'The Friday Poem', teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Bristol, and copy-edits books on ethnography and philosophy from his home in Swansea.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Writers featured: Eluned Gramich / Grace Quantock / Faisal Ali / Sophie Buchaillard / Giancarlo Gemin / Siân Melangell Dafydd / Mary-Ann Constantine / Kandace Siobhan Walker / Neil Gower / Julie Brominicks / Electra Rhodes The history of Wales as a destination and confection of English Romantic writers is well-known, but this book reverses the process, turning a Welsh gaze on the rest of the world. This shift is timely: the severing of Britain from the European Union asks questions of Wales about its relationship to its own past, to the British state, to Europe and beyond, while the present political, public health and environmental crises mean that travel writing can and should never again be the comfortably escapist genre that it was. Our modern anxieties over identity are registered here in writing that questions in a personal, visceral way the meaning of belonging and homecoming, and reflects a search for stability and solace as much as a desire for adventure. Here are lyrical stories refracted through kaleidoscopes of family and world history, alongside accounts of forced displacement and the tenacious love that exists between people and places. Yet these pieces also show the enduring value and joy of travel itself. As Eluned Gramich expresses it ‘It’s one of the pleasures of travel to submit yourself to other people, let yourself be guided and taught’. Taken together, the stories of An Open Door extend Jan Morris’ legacy into a turbulent present and even more uncertain future. Whether seen from Llŷn or the Somali desert, we still take turns to look out at the same stars, and it might be this recognition, above all, that encourages us to hold the door open for as long as we can.