Published to mark the centenary of Roald Dahl's (Welsh) birth,
Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected breaks new ground by revealing
the place of Wales in the imagination of the writer known as 'the
world's number one storyteller'. Exploring the complex conditioning
presence of Wales in his life and work, the essays in this
collection dramatically defamiliarise Dahl and in the process
render him uncanny. Importantly, Dahl is encountered whole - his
books for children and his fiction for adults are read as mutually
invigorating bodies of work, both of which evidence the ways in
which Wales, and the author's Anglo-Welsh orientation, demand
articulation throughout the career. Recognising the impossibility
of constructing a monolithic 'Welsh' Dahl, the contributors explore
the compound and nuanced ways in which Wales signifies across the
oeuvre. Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected takes Dahl studies into
new territory in terms of both subject and method, showing the new
horizons that open up when Dahl is read through a Welsh lens.
Locating Dahl in illuminating new textual networks, resourcefully
offering fresh angles of entry into classic Dahl texts,
rehabilitating neglected Dahl texts, and analysing the layered
genesis of (seemingly) familiar works by excavating the
manuscripts, this innovative volume brings Dahl 'home' in order to
render him invigoratingly unhomely. The result is not a
parochialisation of Dahl, but rather a new internationalisation.
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