Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 758 g
Reihe: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature
Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 758 g
Reihe: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature
ISBN: 978-90-420-3358-0
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Highlighting the centrality of Celticity as an archetypal construct in colonial discourses ancient and modern, this volume traces post/colonial themes and strategies in Gaelic poetry from the Middle Ages to the present. Central themes include the uneasy position of Gaels as subjects of the Scottish or British state, and as both intra-British colonised and overseas colonisers. Aiming to promote interdisciplinary dialogue, it is of interest for scholars and students of Scottish Studies, Gaelic and English literature, and international Postcolonial Studies.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Colonial beginnings? Celticity, Gaeldom and Scotland until the end of the Middle Ages
The capitalist nation state and its “civilising missions”: Gaelic identities in flux
The emergence of an anticolonial voice?
Mission accomplished – perhaps too well? Romanticism and noble savagery
When the civilising mission fails: racism, resistance and revival
Discourses of decolonisation? Cultural cringes, discursive authority, rewriting history, and nationalist poetry
Language matters, indigenous cultural values, education, and direct postcolonial alignments
Against traditionalism and nativism? Pluralism, innovation, internationalism and hybridity as alternative decolonising strategies
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index