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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-273) and index.

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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

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.

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