Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature : : Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives / / Niall O'Gallagher, Michael Gardiner, Graeme Macdonald.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Gardiner, Michael,; Macdonald, Graeme,; O'Gallagher, Niall,
• MitwirkendeR: Connell, Liam,; Davis, Leith,; Dryden, Linda,; Fraser, Bashabi,; Gardiner, Michael,; Gottlieb, Evan,; Harvie, Christopher,; Jackson, Joseph,; Lambert, Iain,; Lehner, Stefanie,; Lyall, Scott,; MacKay, Marina,; Mack, Douglas S.,; Mahlis, Kristen,; Maley, Willy,; McQuillan, Martin,; Palmer McCulloch, Margery,; Punter, David,; Riach, Alan,; Sheppard, Victoria,; Trumpener, Katie,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

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 FeaturesIncludes discussion of Robert Burns, Walter Scott, James Kelman and Alasdair Gray as well as Scottish writing in GaelicConsiders the insights offered by the work of Alice Munro, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Franz Fanon and Edward SaïdLooks at Scottish writing in Gaelic and other non-Anglophone postcolonial literatures alongside postcolonial literatures in English

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Postcolonial Revisions: Coloniality and Empire in Scottish Writing 1786–1914 -- 1. A ‘Conceptual Alliance’: ‘Interculturation’ in Robert Burns and Kamau Brathwaite -- 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 -- 3. Annals of Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro -- 4. Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Poetic Tradition -- 5. Captains of Industry, Lords of Misrule: Carlyle and the Second Scottish Enlightenment -- 6. Literary Affi nities and the Postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad -- 7. John Buchan and Wilson Harris: Myth and Counter-Myth, Exploration and Empire -- Part II. Postcolonialism and Modern Scottish Literature 1914–1979 -- 8. Wole Soyinka and Hugh MacDiarmid: The Violence and Virtues of Nations -- 9. Neil M. Gunn, Chinua Achebe and the Postcolonial Debate -- 10. ‘East is West and West is East’: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism -- 11. Unfinished Business: Muriel Spark and Hannah Arendt in Palestine -- 12. Rewriting and the Politics of Inheritance in Robin Jenkins and Jean Rhys -- 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 -- 14. Conversion and Subversion in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela’s The Translator -- 15. This is not sarcasm believe me yours sincerely: James Kelman, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Amos Tutuola -- 16. ‘Our Little Life is Rounded with a Sleep’: The Scottish Presence in Andrew Greig’s In Another Light and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide -- 17. ‘Dangerous Liaisons’: Gender Politics in the Contemporary Scottish and Irish ImagiNation -- 18. Captain Thistlewood’s Jacobite: Reading the Caribbean in Scotland’s Historiography of Slavery -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index