Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature (eBook, PDF)

Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives
Redaktion: Gardiner, Michael; O'Gallagher, Niall; Macdonald, Graeme

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Produktbeschreibung

The first full-length study of Scottish literature using a post-devolutionary understanding of postcolonial studiesUsing a comparative model and spanning over two hundred years of literary history from the 18th Century to the contemporary, this collection of 19 new essays by some of the leading figures in the field presents a range of perspectives on Scottish and postcolonial writing. The essays explore Scotland's position on both sides of the colonial divide and also its role as instigator of a devolutionary process with potential consequences for British Imperialism. Key Features* Includes discussion of Robert Burns, Walter Scott, James Kelman and Alasdair Gray as well as Scottish writing in Gaelic* Considers the insights offered by the work of Alice Munro, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Franz Fanon and Edward Said* Looks at Scottish writing in Gaelic and other non-Anglophone postcolonial literatures alongside postcolonial literatures in English

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748637751
• Artikelnr.: 38218853

Autorenporträt

Michael Gardiner is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. As well as creative fiction and comparative cultural history and world literature, his books include The Cultural Roots of British Devolution (EUP, 2004), Modern Scottish Culture (2005), and From Trocchi to Trainspotting; Scottish Literary Theory Since 1960 (2006). Graeme MacDonald is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is a co-editor of Post-Theory: New Directions in Criticism (Edinburgh University Press, 1999). Niall O'Gallagher is Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Celtic at the University of Glasgow. He is currently preparing a book on Alasdair Gray and Empire: Scottish Literature and the Challenges of Postcolonial Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Michael Gardiner Part I: Postcolonial Revisions: Coloniality
and Empire in Scottish Writing 1786-1914 1 A 'Conceptual Alliance':
'Interculturation' in Robert Burns and Kamau Brathwaite Leith Davis and
Kristen Kahlis 2 'Almost the Same as Being Innocent': Celebrated
Murderesses and National Narratives in Walter Scott's The Heart of
Mid-Lothian and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace Evan Gottlieb 3 Annals of
Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro
Katie Trumpener 4 Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Poetic Tradition Douglas
S. Mack 5 Captains of Industry, Lords of Misrule: Carlyle and the Second
Scottish Enlightenment Christopher Harvie 6 Literary Affinities and the
Postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad Linda Dryden 7
John Buchan and Wilson Harris: Myth and Counter-Myth, Exploration and
Empire David Punter Part II: Postcolonialism and Modern Scottish Literature
1914-1979 8 Wole Soyinka and Hugh MacDiarmid: The Violence and Virtues of
Nations Alan Riach 9 Neil M. Gunn, Chinua Achebe and the Postcolonial
Debate Margery Palmer McCulloch 10 'East is West and West is East': Lewis
Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism Scott Lyall 11
Unfinished Business: Muriel Spark and Hannah Arendt in Palestine Martin
McQuillan 12 Rewriting and the Politics of Inheritance in Robin Jenkins and
Jean Rhys Marina MacKay Part III: Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish
Literature 13 Race, Nation, Class and Language Use in Tom Leonard's
Intimate Voices and Linton Kwesi Johnson's Mi Revalueshanary Fren Liam
Connell and Victoria Sheppard 14 Conversion and Subversion in Tayeb Salih's
Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela's The Translator Willy
Maley 15 This is not sarcasm believe me yours sincerely: James Kelman, Ken
Saro-Wiwa and Amos Tutuola Iain Lambert 16 'Our Little Life is Rounded with
a Sleep': The Scottish Presence in Andrew Greig's In Another Light and
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