'The Werner Sollors Reader' - Werner Sollors and Daniel G. Williams in conversation with Rachel Farebrother

Join us for the launch of the newly released paperback edition of The Werner Sollors Reader: Ethnicity, Cosmopolitanism and Particularism (Edinburgh University Press). Bringing together essays spanning more than four decades, the volume showcases the work of Werner Sollors, one of the most influential scholars of American literature, ethnicity, migration, and transnational culture.

Werner Sollors will be joined by the volume’s editor, Daniel G. Williams, in conversation with Rachel Farebrother. Together they will discuss the ideas that have shaped Sollors’s scholarship, the continuing significance of debates about ethnicity and belonging, and the enduring value of comparative and transnational approaches to literature and culture.

Limited copies of the book will be available (cash only) at a reduced price of £25 (RRP: 34.99)

Supported by:
Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales
Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales
FHSS Environment Fund

*Please note: Event delivered in English

Werner Sollors
Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, at Harvard University. An internationally renowned scholar of American literature and culture, his work has transformed the study of ethnicity, migration, race, and transnationalism. His influential books include Beyond Ethnicity, Neither Black Nor White Yet Both, and The Temptation of Despair. For more than four decades, Sollors has helped shape debates about identity, belonging, and cultural exchange across national boundaries. The Werner Sollors Reader brings together a representative selection of his most important essays.

Daniel G. Williams
Daniel G. Williams is Professor of English Literature at Swansea University and Director of the Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales. His research explores questions of nationhood, ethnicity, cultural identity, and transatlantic exchange. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Black Skin, Blue Books, Wales Unchained, and The Werner Sollors Reader. From August he will be a Fellow of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

Rachel Farebrother
Rachel Farebrother is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at Swansea University and a leading scholar of twentieth-century American literature and culture. Her research focuses on African American writing, modernism, race, migration, and transnational literary networks. She is the author of The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance and editor (with Miriam Thaggert) A History of the Harlem Renaissance.

Ymunwch â ni ar gyfer lansiad argraffiad clawr meddal newydd o’r The Werner Sollors Reader: Ethnicity, Cosmopolitanism and Particularism (Gwasg Prifysgol Caeredin). Mae’r gyfrol yn dwyn ynghyd draethodau sy’n ymestyn dros fwy na phedwar degawd ac yn arddangos gwaith Werner Sollors, un o ysgolheigion mwyaf dylanwadol llenyddiaeth Americanaidd, ethnigrwydd, mudo ac hunaniaeth.

Bydd Werner Sollors yn ymuno â golygydd y gyfrol, Daniel G. Williams, mewn sgwrs â Rachel Farebrother. Bydd y drafodaeth yn archwilio’r syniadau sydd wedi llywio ysgolheictod Sollors, pwysigrwydd parhaus trafodaethau am ethnigrwydd a pherthyn, a gwerth dulliau cymharol o astudio llenyddiaeth a diwylliant.

Bydd copiau o’r llyfr ar gael (arian parod yn unig) am bris gostynedig o £25 (RRP: 34.99)

*Sylwch: Cyflwynwyd y digwyddiad yn Saesneg

Werner Sollors
Mae Werner Sollors yn Athro Emeritws Henry B. ac Anne M. Cabot mewn Llenyddiaeth Saesneg ym Mhrifysgol Harvard. Mae’n ysgolhaig o fri rhyngwladol ym maes llenyddiaeth a diwylliant America, ac mae ei waith wedi trawsnewid astudiaethau ethnigrwydd, mudo, hil a hunaniaeth. Ymhlith ei lyfrau mwyaf dylanwadol mae Beyond Ethnicity, Neither Black Nor White Yet Both, a The Temptation of Despair. Dros fwy na phedwar degawd mae wedi siapio trafodaethau am hunaniaeth ar draws ffiniau cenedlaethol.

Daniel G. Williams
Mae Daniel G. Williams yn Athro Llenyddiaeth Saesneg ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe ac yn Gyfarwyddwr Canolfan Richard Burton ar gyfer Astudio Cymru. Mae ei ymchwil yn canolbwyntio ar berthynas llenyddiaeth a cenedligrwydd, ethnigrwydd ac hunaniaeth ddiwylliannol. Mae wedi ysgrifennu a golygu nifer o gyfrolau, gan gynnwys Black Skin, Blue Books, Wales Unchained, a The Werner Sollors Reader. O fis Awst fe fydd yn gymrawd ymchwil yng Nghanolfan Hutchins, Prifysgol Harvard

Rachel Farebrother
Mae Rachel Farebrother yn Uwch Ddarlithydd ym maes Astudiaethau Americanaidd ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe ac yn ysgolhaig blaenllaw ym maes llenyddiaeth a diwylliant America’r ugeinfed ganrif. Mae ei hymchwil yn canolbwyntio ar lenyddiaeth Affro-Americanaidd a moderniaeth. Hi yw awdur The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance a golygydd (gyda Miriam Thaggert) A History of the Harlem Renaissance.