Border crossings
Subtitle: narration, nation and imagination in Scots and Irish literature and culture
By: edited by Colin Younger
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781443852296
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: English literature; Celtic authors; History and criticism; Boundaries in literature
Description: Borderlands, boundaries and frontiers are crucibles for diverse cultures and multiple alternative histories. Nowhere is this truer than in the debateable lands between nation states in what is commonly known as the British Isles. This collection takes the reader on an imaginative journey inside the borders, offering a fresh perspective on the liminality of these porous and contested terrains and the liminal peoples therein.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Colin Younger; title: part 1. Borderlines. Mist across Celtic waters / Mike Adamson; title: Exile and suffering in the construction of identity: narratives of banishment, exile and return in 17th and 18th century Britain and Ireland / Peter Rushton; title: Voices from the prairie: immigrant identities in opposition / Nick Serra; title: "Man mai ther-of et inogh": agricultural crisis and BL MS Harley 913 / Michael W. George; title: part 2. Borderlands. In praise of uncertainty: the liminal authenticity of the border ballads / Colin Younger; title: Borders: Lord Ernest Hamilton (1858-1939), race, religion and Ulster-Scots identity in the last decades of the Anglo-Irish Union / Patrick Maume; title: The fantasy of the Celtic revival: Lord Dunsany, Fiona Macleod and W.B. Yeats / Tania Scott; title: Martin McDonagh's Celtic  tiger feet: trading on the twisted legacies of Irish drama / Willy Maley; title: part. 3. Border crossings. The 'roaring Irishman': William Maginn, Ireland and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine / Alison O'Malley Younger and John Strachan; title: Morbid anatomy: De'crypt'ing the monstrous: Burke and Hare / Alison O'Malley Younger; title: Two sides of the same dark coin: gothic cityscapes and masculinities in William Mcilvanney's Laidlaw and Eoin Mcnamee's Resurrection Man / Martyn Colebrook; title: When Scottish eyes are Irishised / Mark Corcoran; title: "The place you don't belong": border-crossings and ambivalence in the Northern Irish noir-thriller / Thomas Rudman; title: Learning to Thole: the unconscious connections between Ireland and Scotland in the thought of Seamus Heaney / Euegene O'Brien.