Subaltern ethics in contemporary Scottish and Irish literature
Subtitle: tracing counter-histories
By: Stefanie Lehner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780230241701
Subjects: In literature; History and criticism; Ethics in literature; Irish authors; English fiction; Scottish authors; History in literature; History and literature; History
Description: This text develops an 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 3 state-formations in Ireland and Scotland.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction Irish-Scottish crosscurrents: towards an archipelagic subaltern aesthethics; title: (D)evolutions? transformations in the Scottish, Irish & Northern Irish imagination; title: "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"; title: "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; title: "Measuring silences": the Northern Irish peace process as Arkhe-taintment?: Glenn Patterson's That which was and Eoin McNamee's The ultras; title: "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; title: Feminine futures: gender trouble in the allegorical imagination: Alasdair Gray's 1982 Janine and Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto; title: Conclusion.