Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives

Michael Gardiner; Graeme Macdonald; Niall O'Gallagher

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2011

Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature

Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives

Michael Gardiner , Graeme Macdonald and Niall O'Gallagher

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748637751

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

Key Features

Includes discussion of Robert Burns, Walter Scott, James Kelman and Alasdair Gray as well as Scottish writing in Gaelic
Considers the insights offered by the work of Alice Munro, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Franz Fanon and Edward Saïd
Looks at Scottish writing in Gaelic and other non-Anglophone postcolonial literatures alongside postcolonial literatures in English

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Introduction Michael Gardiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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 Mahlis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
3. Annals of Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro Katie Trumpener Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4. Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Poetic Tradition Douglas S. Mack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5. Captains of Industry, Lords of Misrule: Carlyle and the Second Scottish Enlightenment Christopher Harvie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
6. Literary Affi nities and the Postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad Linda Dryden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
7. John Buchan and Wilson Harris: Myth and Counter-Myth, Exploration and Empire David Punter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Part II. Postcolonialism and Modern Scottish Literature 1914–1979
8. Wole Soyinka and Hugh MacDiarmid: The Violence and Virtues of Nations Alan Riach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
9. Neil M. Gunn, Chinua Achebe and the Postcolonial Debate Margery Palmer McCulloch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
10. ‘East is West and West is East’: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism Scott Lyall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
11. Unfinished Business: Muriel Spark and Hannah Arendt in Palestine Martin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
12. Rewriting and the Politics of Inheritance in Robin Jenkins and Jean Rhys Marina MacKay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
14. Conversion and Subversion in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela’s The Translator Willy Maley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
15. This is not sarcasm believe me yours sincerely: James Kelman, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Amos Tutuola Iain Lambert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
16. ‘Our Little Life is Rounded with a Sleep’: The Scottish Presence in Andrew Greig’s In Another Light and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Bashabi Fraser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
17. ‘Dangerous Liaisons’: Gender Politics in the Contemporary Scottish and Irish ImagiNation Stefanie Lehner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
18. Captain Thistlewood’s Jacobite: Reading the Caribbean in Scotland’s Historiography of Slavery Joseph Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: June 13, 2011
ISBN: 9780748637751