Scottish literature and postcolonial literature [[electronic resource] ] : comparative texts and critical perspectives / / edited by Michael Gardiner, Graeme Macdonald and Niall O'Gallagher

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461375103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2011
• ISBN: 0-7486-5214-0; 1-283-22163-2; 9786613221636; 0-7486-3775-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GardinerMichael <1970->; MacdonaldGraeme <1969->; O'GallagherNiall
• Disciplina: 820.99411
• Soggetti: Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism; Postcolonialism - Commonwealth countries; Postcolonialism - Scotland; Scottish literature - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-273) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; Introduction; Part I Postcolonial Revisions: Coloniality and Empire in Scottish Writing 1786-1914; CHAPTER 1 A 'Conceptual Alliance': 'Interculturation' in Robert Burns and Kamau Brathwaite; CHAPTER 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; CHAPTER 3 Annals of Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro; CHAPTER 4 Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Poetic Tradition; CHAPTER 5 Captains of Industry, Lords of Misrule: Carlyle and the Second Scottish EnlightenmentCHAPTER 6 Literary Affinities and the Postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad; CHAPTER 7 John Buchan and Wilson Harris: Myth and Counter-Myth, Exploration and Empire; Part II Postcolonialism and Modern Scottish Literature ; 1914-1979; CHAPTER 8 Wole Soyinka and Hugh MacDiarmid: The Violence and Virtues of Nations; CHAPTER 9 Neil M. Gunn, Chinua Achebe and the Postcolonial Debate; CHAPTER 10 'East is West and West is East': Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism; CHAPTER 11 Muriel Spark and Hannah Arendt in PalestineCHAPTER 12 Rewriting and the Politics of Inheritance Robin Jenkins and Jean Rhys; Part III Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Literature; CHAPTER 13 Race, Nation, Class and Language Use in Tom Leonard's Intimate Voices and Linton Kwesi Johnson's Mi Revalueshanary Fren; CHAPTER 14 Conversion and Subversion in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela's The Translator; CHAPTER 15 This is not sarcasm believe me yours sincerely: James Kelman, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Amos Tutuola; CHAPTER 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 TideCHAPTER 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; CHAPTER 17 'Dangerous Liaisons': Gender Politics in the Contemporary Scottish and Irish ImagiNation; CHAPTER 18 Captain Thistlewood's Jacobite: Reading the Caribbean in Scotland's Historiography of Slavery; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This ground breaking collection of essays is the first full-length attempt to map out the relationship between Scottish literature and postcolonial studies.