While cultural diversity and hybridity have often been celebrated, they also challenge traditional concepts of national and cultural identity - challenges which have caused considerable anxiety. Various disciplines have often investigated the impact of cultural hybridity, multiculture, and (post)colonialism in relative isolation and with a tendency towards over-theorization and loss of specificity. Greater interdisciplinary cooperation can counter this tendency and encourage sustained comparisons between different former empires and across language boundaries. This volume contributes to such...

The first comprehensive study of Scottish and Celtic fringe postcolonialism 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, showing how they intersect with socio-historical and political issues, anglophone literature, and the media. 380 pp.