This article examines the ways in which Fflur Dafydd’s 2008 novel Twenty Thousand Saints negotiates notions of the island space in a post-devolution Welsh context. It argues that the novel is a rich site in the analysis of the literary dimension of what Baldacchino describes as the “island-mainland […] dialectic” (Baldacchino, 2006, p. 10). Set on Bardsey, a real small island off the coast of north Wales, the novel employs a multiple-character narrative to explore and critique the various ways in which Bardsey has been constructed in the Welsh cultural imagination. In particular, the novel explores the idea of the island as a queer space. It does so in a way that posits Bardsey in dialectical relation to an ongoing, politically dynamic Welsh mainland. The article suggests that the novel can be read as a mainland appropriation of the island in the post-devolution era. Yet this is simultaneously an enabling imaginative act that confirms the power of literature to create new imaginative geographies.

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“这将是我们自己的小威尔士”：将巴德西岛迁至弗弗尔·达菲德（Fflur Dafydd）的《二十万圣人》中的后移威尔士

本文探讨了Fflur Dafydd的2008年小说《二十万个圣徒》如何在权力下放后的威尔士语境中讨论岛屿空间的概念。它认为，小说在分析巴尔达奇诺所说的“岛屿-大陆[……]辩证法”的文学层面上是一个丰富的网站（Baldacchino，2006，第10页）。这部小说以威尔士文化想象力中的各种方式为背景，以多字符叙事为背景，并以威尔士北部威尔士沿海的一个小岛巴德西为背景。特别是，小说探讨了将岛作为奇异空间的想法。这样做的目的是使巴德西与正在进行的政治活跃的威尔士大陆处于辩证关系。文章认为，这部小说可以被理解为后代时代对大陆的侵占。然而，这同时是一种有力的想象力行动，证实了文学创作创造新的想象力地理学的力量。