Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination

Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated in the aftermath of the 2014 referendum on independence and amid a continuing campaign for more autonomy. Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination offers an introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and nonliterary texts. Silke Stroh shows how the image of Scotland’s Gaelic margins changed under the influence of the emergence of the modern nation-state and the rise of overseas colonialism

Klaus Peter Müller (ed.), Scotland 2014 and Beyond – Coming of Age and Loss of Innocence?

Structured around the central nexus of the Scottish independence referendum of 18 September 2014, this interdisciplinary volume investigates a wide range of cultural and social issues which have pertained to the independence debate, and to the wider developments that led up to it. As the word “beyond” in the book title indicates, the collection also discusses prospects for the country’s post-referendum future. Although the referendum result turned out a 55-percent vote in favour of staying wi..

The International Companion to Scottish Poetry

A range of leading international scholars provide the reader with a comprehensive and innovative investigation of the extraordinary richness and diversity of Scotland\u2019s poetry. Addressing Languages and Chronologies, Poetic Forms, and Topics and Themes, this International Companion covers the entire subject from from the early Middle Ages to the modern day, and explores the connections, influences and interrelations between English, Gaelic, Latin, Old Norse and Scots verse. CONTENTS Series Editors\u2019 Preface Introduction (Carla Sassi) Part 1: Languages and Chronologies Early Celtic Poetry (to 1500) (Thomas Owen Clancy) Scots poetry in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (R. D. S. Jack) Poetry in Latin (Roger Green) Poetry in the Languages and Dialects of Northern Scotland (Roberta Frank, Brian Smith) The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (S\uecm Innes, Alessandra Petrina) The Eighteenth Century (Ronald Black, Gerard Carruthers) The Nineteenth Century (Ian Duncan, Sheila Kidd) The Poetry of Modernity (1870\u20131950) (Emma Dymock, Scott Lyall) Contemporary Poetry (1950\u2013) (Attila D\uf3sa, Michelle Macleod) Part 2: Poetic Forms The Form of Scottish Gaelic poetry (William Gillies) Scots Poetic Forms (Derrick McClure) The Ballad in Scots and English (Suzanne Gilbert) Part 3: Topics and Themes Nature, Landscape and Rural Life (Louisa Gairn) Nation and Home (Carla Sassi, Silke Stroh) Protest and Politics (Wilson McLeod, Alan Riach) Love and Erotic Poetry (Peter Mackay) Faith and Religion (Meg Bateman, James McGonigal) Scottish Poetry as World Poetry (Paul Barnaby) The Literary Environment (Robyn Marsack) Endnotes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index

Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination

Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated in the aftermath of the 2014 referendum on independence and amid a continuing campaign for more autonomy. Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination offers an introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and nonliterary texts. Silke Stroh shows how the image of Scotland’s Gaelic margins changed under the influence of the emergence of the modern nation-state and the rise of overseas colonialism

Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination: Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900

Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated in the aftermath of the 2014 referendum on independence and amid a continuing campaign for more autonomy. Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination offers an introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and nonliterary texts. Silke Stroh shows how the image of Scotland’s Gaelic margins changed under the influence of the emergence of the modern nation-state and the rise of overseas colonialism

Introduzione

The introduction provides a historical, cultural and literary context to the collection of essays, illustrating the specificities of the century spanning from 1850 to 1950, both in a Scottish and global context. Such specificites shed light on the collection and also on the methodological standpoint opted for \u2013 combining postcolonial and global studies

Nation and Home

'Home' and 'nation' are contiguous terms \u2014 pointing towards an idea of respectively 'affective' and 'imagined' community \u2014 that both imply a common identity, a sense of belonging, cohesiveness and security. If the ideas of home/nation are largely dependent on a community's imagination, then, as recent scholarship has pointed out, poetry in larger measure than other literary expressions plays a key role in the shaping of such collective identities. At the same time, poetry's 'singularities' problematise the construction of a collective identity. This chapter explores how Scottish poetry has not only reflected but also creatively (re)shaped the experience of home/nation, covering a wide range of poems in Gaelic, Scots and English from the Middle Ages to the present, from various different genres, including elegies/poetry of mourning, epic poetry, panegyrics and political satire. It charts different approaches to/perceptions of home/nation, including that of women and diasporic Scots. Texts discussed include poems by the MacMhuirichs, John Barbour, David Lindsay, M\ue0iri Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh, Iain Lom, Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, James Macpherson, Donnchadh B\ue0n Mac an t-Saoir, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Jean Elliott, Iain MacGhillEathain, M\ue0iri Mh\uf2r, Hugh MacDiarmid, Nan Shepherd, Somhairle MacGill-Eain, Edwin Morgan, Liz Lochhead, Anna Frater and Chris Whyte

Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and his Contemporaries

The European age of empires launched a process of capitalist globalisation that continues to the present day. It is also inextricably linked with the spread of revolutionary discourses in terms of race, nation, class and gender: the quest for emancipation, democracy, political independence, and economic equality. R. B. Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936), in both his life and his oeuvre, most effectively represents the complex interaction between imperial and revolutionary discourses in this dramatic period. Throughout his life he was an outspoken critic of injustice and inequality, and his appreciation of the demands and customs of diverse territories and contrasting cultures were hallmarks of his life, his political ideas, and his writing. These essays explore the expression of these ideas in the works of Cunninghame Graham and of other Scottish writers active between c. 1850 and 1950

Introduction

Lindner U, Möhring M, Stroh S, Stein M. Introduction. In: Lindner U, Möhring M, Stein M, Stroh S, eds. Hybrid Cultures - Nervous States. Germany and Great Britain in a (Post)colonial World. Cross cultures. Vol 129. Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi; 2010: 346

Hybrid Cultures - Nervous States. Germany and Great Britain in a (Post)colonial World

Lindner U, Möhring M, Stein M, Stroh S, eds. Hybrid Cultures - Nervous States. Germany and Great Britain in a (Post)colonial World. Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi; 2010