Georgia Burdett & Sarah Morse 
Fight and Flight 
Essays on Ron Berry

Ron Berry is one of the most brilliant and cantankerous of Welsh writers. Radical and earthy, he was a collier, carpenter, navvy, footballer, and unorthodox environmentalist. This volume, the first collection of essays on Berry, is a timely response to his forthcoming centenary.

Table of Content

Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of abbreviations
Ways Out: Ways In: Ways Back An Introduction
Barbara Prys-Williams, History is what you live: Ron Berry’s rumination on his conflicted life and times
Tony Brown, A Man’s World: The Short Fiction of Ron Berry
John Perrott Jenkins, Reading Hector Bebb: Masculinity and Mythic Paradigms in So Long, Hector Bebb (1970)
Daryl Leeworthy, The Full-Time Amateur: Sport in Ron Berry’s south-Walian Imagination
Georgia Burdett, ‘The Inadequates’: Ron Berry and Disability
Sarah Morse, ‘Green always comes back’: Ron Berry’s ecocentric writing
Tomos Owen, ‘Land of my Feathers’: Ron Berry and Niall Griffiths on the Wing
John Pikoulis, ‘Word-of-mouth cultures cease in cemeteries’
Afterword
Bibliography

About the author

The collection will certainly be welcomed within the field of Welsh writing in English, and will also be of interest to scholars of de- and post-industrial societies, literatures and culture. The careful blend of socio-cultural detail combined with contemporary theoretical perspectives and textual analysis will appeal to the sophisticated general reader, whilst the timeliness of the project to coincide with Ron Berry’s centenary will support a wider lay readership.