Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780748637744 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 288 str.

Michael Gardiner

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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.

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Introduction Michael Gardiner Part I: Postcolonial Revisions: Coloniality and Empire in Scottish Writing 1786-1914 1 A 'Conceptual Alliance': 'Interculturation' in Robert Burns and Kamau Brathwaite Leith Davis and Kristen Kahlis 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 Evan Gottlieb 3 Annals of Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro Katie Trumpener 4 Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Poetic Tradition Douglas S. Mack 5 Captains of Industry, Lords of Misrule: Carlyle and the Second Scottish Enlightenment Christopher Harvie 6 Literary Affinities and the Postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad Linda Dryden 7 John Buchan and Wilson Harris: Myth and Counter-Myth, Exploration and Empire David Punter Part II: Postcolonialism and Modern Scottish Literature 1914-1979 8 Wole Soyinka and Hugh MacDiarmid: The Violence and Virtues of Nations Alan Riach 9 Neil M. Gunn, Chinua Achebe and the Postcolonial Debate Margery Palmer McCulloch 10 'East is West and West is East': Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism Scott Lyall 11 Unfinished Business: Muriel Spark and Hannah Arendt in Palestine Martin McQuillan 12 Rewriting and the Politics of Inheritance in Robin Jenkins and Jean Rhys Marina MacKay 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 Liam Connell and Victoria Sheppard 14 Conversion and Subversion in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela's The Translator Willy Maley 15 This is not sarcasm believe me yours sincerely: James Kelman, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Amos Tutuola Iain Lambert 16 'Our Little Life is Rounded with a Sleep': The Scottish Presence in Andrew Greig's In Another Light and Amitav