Gendering the Nation : : Studies in Modern Scottish Literature / / Christopher Whyte.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Whyte, Christopher,
• MitwirkendeR: Calder, Jenni,; Elphinstone, Margaret,; Gonda, Caroline,; Jack, R. D. S.,; Morgan, Edwin,; Schoene, Berthold,; Scullion, Adrienne,; Smith, Alison,; Whyte, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Too often seen as a ghost from the past, nationalism has resurfaced as a major factor in European politics and culture. A powerful commitment to national autonomy has marked Scottish writing throughout the twentieth century. How has the emergence of new voices from feminist, gay and lesbian critics transformed that commitment? How critical and pluralistic can the new nationalisms be? This collection serves notice that the tradition is being read in new and disruptive ways. Five women and four men examine the relationship between gender and nationality, how male and female authors portray women, the treatment of sexuality in Scottish writing, the construction of Scottish masculinity and its relation to class and homophobia. Covering modern fiction and theatre, poetry, film and television, it is a provocative reassessment of the gender and culture of a 'stateless nation'.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 An Other Country? Mapping Scottish / Lesbian / Writing -- 2. And Woman Created Woman: Carswell, Shepherd and Muir, and the Self-Made Woman -- 3. Fishy Masculinities: Neil Gunn's The Silver Darlings -- 4. Men, Women and Comrades -- 5. Angry Young Masculinity and the Rhetoric of Homophobia and Misogyny in the Scottish Novels of Alan Sharp -- 6. The Quest: Two Contemporary Adventures -- 7 Barrie and the Extreme Heroine -- 8. Feminine Pleasures and Masculine Indignities: Gender and Community in Scottish Drama -- 9 A Scottish Trawl -- Notes on Contributors -- Index