"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 / edited by J. Derrick McClure, Karoline Szatek-Tudor and Rosa E. Penna.

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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

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 presented are included in this volume. As at previous conferences in the series, the papers range widely in approach, in subject-matter and in geographical coverage: readers of this book will find ...

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