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...
While cultural diversity and hybridity have often been celebrated, they also challenge traditional concepts of national and cultural identity - challe...
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.
The first comprehensive study of Scottish and Celtic fringe postcolonialism offers an in-depth study of Gaelic literature. It investigates the complex...
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...
Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comp...
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 tothe 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 Imaginationoffers a general introduction to the emerging field of...
Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comp...
