Ymlaen Mae Canaan : Dyfodoldeb yn Hanesyddiaeth y Theatr Gymraeg
- Submitting institution
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Aberystwyth University / Prifysgol Aberystwyth
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 10163516
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- Perfformio'r Genedl : Ar Drywydd Hywel Teifi Edwards
- Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru | University of Wales Press
- ISBN
- 9781786830340
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This Welsh-language publication centres on the depiction of a future Welsh national theatre in the propagandist science fiction novel ‘Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd’ (‘A Week in Future Wales’), published by Plaid Cymru in 1957. It utilises queer theory to critically interrogate the normative and future-oriented nature of Welsh-language theatre historiography. Challenging the assumptions made of a theatre culture that habitually assumed the dramatic to be the default idiom for theatrical performance- despite the absence of a Welsh-language dramatic canon- it argues for a need to privilege the (queer) immediacy of the performance event over a deference to a non-existent tradition.
