What Countrey's This? And Whither Are We Gone? : Papers presented at the Twelfth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation (Aberdeen University, 30th July - 2nd August 2008).
In August 2008, the twelfth in a series of biennial conferences on the Literature of Region and Nation was held at Aberdeen University in the North-East of Scotland. Over fifty scholars, representing no fewer than twenty different countries, convened for the occasion; and twenty-two of the papers pr...
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2010.
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- Table of contents; introduction; a song for the conference; part i; sons and daughters of breogán; nationalism and its discontents; "silly scotch muck about cottars and women"?; part ii; picturing postcolonialism; the wearin' o' the deep green; issues of memory, issues of identity; "wild men" and "wild notions"; from the cairngorms to the cordillera real; some uses of animals in literature; part iii; discontented donald and compatriots; exiles in babylon; exiled at home; part iv; hag-rid by dumbledores; john jamieson and hugh macdiarmid; "all livin language is sacred"; "bombarded with words."
- Indefinite identitypart v; archaeoastronomy in the desert southwest; rhyme(r) and reason; regional literatures and intercultural dialogue; hybridity and cultural negotiation in mouloud feraoun's la terre et le sang (1953) and les chemins qui montent (1957); truth and lies seen through literature; contributors; other papers presented at the conference.