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Scottish literature and postcolonial literature : comparative texts and critical perspectives /
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 fig...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.