Subaltern Ethics in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Literature [electronic resource] : Tracing Counter-Histories /
Lehner, S.author.
This book develops an innovative Irish-Scottish postcolonial approach by galvanizing Emmanuel Levinas' ethics with the socio-cultural category of the 'subaltern'. It sheds new light on contemporary Scottish and Irish fiction, exploring how these writings interact with the recent restructuring of the three state-formations in Ireland and Scotland.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction Irish-Scottish crosscurrents: towards an archipelagic subaltern aesthethics -- (D)evolutions? transformations in the Scottish, Irish & Northern Irish imagination -- "Buried in silence and oblivion": subaltern counter-histories in the Scottish-Irish archipelago: James Kelman's "Naval history" and Robert Mcliam Wilson's "The dreamed" -- "History stands so still, it gathers dust": mapping ethical disjunctures in contemporary Ireland and Scotland: Patrick McCabe's The dead school and James Kelman's You have to be careful in the land of the free -- "Measuring silences": the Northern Irish peace process as Arkhe-taintment?: Glenn Patterson's That which was and Eoin McNamee's The ultras -- "Un-remembering history": traumatic herstories in contemporary Irish and Scottish fiction: Roddy Doyle's The woman who walked into doors, Janice Galloway's The trick is to keep breathing and Jennifer Johnston's The invisible worm -- Feminine futures: gender trouble in the allegorical imagination: Alasdair Gray's 1982 Janine and Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto -- Conclusion.
This book develops an innovative Irish-Scottish postcolonial approach by galvanizing Emmanuel Levinas' ethics with the socio-cultural category of the 'subaltern'. It sheds new light on contemporary Scottish and Irish fiction, exploring how these writings interact with the recent restructuring of the three state-formations in Ireland and Scotland.
Fiction.
Literature   .
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
British literature.
Great Britain-History.
Fiction.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.