Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature : : Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives /

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

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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 figu...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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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

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