Uneasy subjects : : postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic poetry / / Silke Stroh.
Scottish and “Celtic fringe” postcolonialism has caused much controversy and unease in literary studies. Can the non-English territories and peoples of the British Isles, faced with centuries of English hegemony, be meaningfully compared to former overseas colonies? This book is the first comprehens...
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| Superior document: | Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 17 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2011. |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scottish cultural review of language and literature ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (379 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Colonial beginnings? Celticity, Gaeldom and Scotland until the end of the Middle Ages
- The capitalist nation state and its “civilising missions”: Gaelic identities in flux
- The emergence of an anticolonial voice?
- Mission accomplished – perhaps too well? Romanticism and noble savagery
- When the civilising mission fails: racism, resistance and revival
- Discourses of decolonisation? Cultural cringes, discursive authority, rewriting history, and nationalist poetry
- Language matters, indigenous cultural values, education, and direct postcolonial alignments
- Against traditionalism and nativism? Pluralism, innovation, internationalism and hybridity as alternative decolonising strategies
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.