Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature

Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature

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  • Author: Michael Gardiner
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 0748637753
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

The first full-length study of Scottish literature using a post-devolutionary understanding of postcolonial studies. Using 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.


Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature

Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature

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  • Author: Michael Gardiner
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  • Languages : en
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This ground breaking collection of essays is the first full-length attempt to map out the relationship between Scottish literature and postcolonial studies.


Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination

Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination

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  • Author: Silke Stroh
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • ISBN: 0810134047
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 551

Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than patriotic victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated in recent years, especially in the run-up to the 2014 referendum on independence, and remain topical amid continuing campaigns for more autonomy and calls for a post-Brexit “indyref2.” Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination offers a general introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations in order to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and nonliterary texts. The main focus is on internal divisions between the anglophone Lowlands and traditionally Gaelic Highlands, which also play a crucial role in Scottish–English relations. Silke Stroh shows how the image of Scotland’s Gaelic margins changed under the influence of two simultaneous developments: the emergence of the modern nation-state and the rise of overseas colonialism.


Within and Without Empire

Within and Without Empire

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  • Author: Theo van Heijnsbergen
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1443855677
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 275

The concept of the border evoked by the title of the present volume provides a central interpretative key for our project at more than one level, as it is suggestive both of Scotland as a 'theoretical borderland' in relation to the Empire and postcoloniality, and of our attempt at bringing into dialogue scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, including Scottish, Celtic and postcolonial studies. The 'Scotland' of the present volume's title is thus suggestive of a critical standpoint ...


Uneasy Subjects

Uneasy Subjects

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  • Author: Silke Stroh
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9401200572
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 378

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 comprehensive study of this topic which offers an in-depth study of Gaelic literature. It investigates the complex interplay between Celticity, Gaeldom, Scottish and British national identity, and international colonial and postcolonial discourse. It situates post/colonial elements in Gaelic poetry within a wider context, showing how they intersect with socio-historical and political issues, anglophone literature and the media. Highlighting the centrality of Celticity as an archetypal construct in colonial discourses ancient and modern, this volume traces post/colonial themes and strategies in Gaelic poetry from the Middle Ages to the present. Central themes include the uneasy position of Gaels as subjects of the Scottish or British state, and as both intra-British colonised and overseas colonisers. Aiming to promote interdisciplinary dialogue, it is of interest for scholars and students of Scottish Studies, Gaelic and English literature, and international Postcolonial Studies.


Community in Modern Scottish Literature

Community in Modern Scottish Literature

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  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004317457
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

Community in Modern Scottish Literature is the first book to examine representations and theories of community in Scottish writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries across a broad range of authors and from various conceptual perspectives. The leading scholars in the field examine work in the novel, poetry, and drama, by key Scottish authors such as MacDiarmid, Kelman, and Galloway, as well as less well known writers. This includes postmodern and postcolonial readings, analysis of writing by gay and Gaelic authors, alongside theorists of community such as Nancy, Bauman, Delanty, Cohen, Blanchot, and Anderson. This book will unsettle and yet broaden traditional conceptions of community in Scotland and Scottish literature, suggesting a more plural idea of what community might be.


Scotland in Theory

Scotland in Theory

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  • Author: Eleanor Bell
  • Publisher: Rodopi
  • ISBN: 9789042010284
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 292

Scotland in Theory offers new ways of reading Scottish texts and culture within the context of an altered political framework and a changing sense of national identity. With the re-establishment of a Parliament in Edinburgh, issues of nationality and nationalism can be looked at afresh. It is timely now to revisit representations of Scottish culture in cinematography and literature, and also to examine aspects of gender, sexuality and ideology that have shaped how Scots have come to understand themselves. Established and younger critics use a variety of theoretical approaches here to catch an authentic sense of a post-modern Scotland in the process of change. Literature and the arts provide radical ways of knowing what Scotland, in theory, could become. The collection will be of interest to teachers and students of Scottish and English literature, literary theory, cultural and media analysis, and the history of ideas. Contributors include Eleanor Bell, Kasia Boddy, Cairns Craig, Thomas Docherty, Christopher Harvie, Ellen Raïssa-Jackson, Willy Maley, Gavin Miller, Tom Nairn, Sarah Neely, Laurence Nicoll, Berthold Schoene, Anne McManus Scriven, A.J.P. Thomson, Ronald Turnbull, Christopher Whyte.


Postcolonial Cultures

Postcolonial Cultures

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  • Author: Simon Featherstone
  • Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • ISBN: 9781578067718
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

An overview of postcolonial studies and current thought on literature, tourism, and popular culture


Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Studies

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  • Author: Patrick Brantlinger
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 0748633057
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

This book surveys the impact of the British Empire on nineteenth-century British literature from a postcolonial perspective. It explains both pro-imperialist themes and attitudes in works by major Victorian authors, and also points of resistance to and criticisms of the Empire such as abolitionism, as well as the first stirrings of nationalism in India and elsewhere.Using nineteenth-century literary works as illustrations, it analyzes several major debates, central to imperial and postcolonial studies, about imperial historiography and Marxism, gender and race, Orientalism, mimicry, and subalternity and representation. And it provides an in-depth examination of works by several major Victorian authors-Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Disraeli, Tennyson, Yeats, Kipling, and Conrad among them - in the imperial context. Key Features:*Links literary texts to debates in postcolonial studies*Discusses works not included in standard literary histories*Provides in-depth discussions and comparisons of major authors: Disraeli and George Eliot; Dickens and Charlotte Bronte; Tennsyon and Yeats*Provides a guide to further reading and a timeline


Post-colonial Theory and English Literature

Post-colonial Theory and English Literature

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  • Author: Peter Childs
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  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 480

Includes critical essays on William Shakespeare's The Tempest; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre; Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Rudyard Kipling's Kim; James Joyce's Ulysses; E.M. Forster's A passage to India; and, Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses.