“Colonised by Wankers” : Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction
Homberg-Schramm, Jessica
“Colonised by Wankers” : Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction - Cologne Modern Academic Publishing 2018 - 1 electronic resource (260 p.)
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"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating. Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottish novels, this study explores the postcolonial in Scottish fiction in order to investigate the underlying discursive power relations that shape the Scottish literary imagination. The study consequently demonstrates that the analysis of Scottish national identity profits from this new angle of interpretation of the Scottish novel as postcolonial. The analysis of discourses such as those of gender, class, space and place, and race reveals how the construction of the Scottish as marginalised permeates the width of the contemporary Scottish novel, by referring to diverse examples, such as James Kelman’s How late it was, how late or genre fiction such as Ian Rankin’s Set in Darkness. Thus, this study provides an insightful reading in the wake of current political developments such as the Scottish independence referendum."
Creative Commons
English
baj 9783946198314;9783946198291;9783946198307
10.16994/baj doi
United Kingdom, Great Britain
Scotland
Literature & literary studies
Literary studies: post-colonial literature
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
scottish studies modern fiction postcolonial studies contemporary scottish fiction England Scotland Scots language Working class
“Colonised by Wankers” : Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction - Cologne Modern Academic Publishing 2018 - 1 electronic resource (260 p.)
Open Access
"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating. Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottish novels, this study explores the postcolonial in Scottish fiction in order to investigate the underlying discursive power relations that shape the Scottish literary imagination. The study consequently demonstrates that the analysis of Scottish national identity profits from this new angle of interpretation of the Scottish novel as postcolonial. The analysis of discourses such as those of gender, class, space and place, and race reveals how the construction of the Scottish as marginalised permeates the width of the contemporary Scottish novel, by referring to diverse examples, such as James Kelman’s How late it was, how late or genre fiction such as Ian Rankin’s Set in Darkness. Thus, this study provides an insightful reading in the wake of current political developments such as the Scottish independence referendum."
Creative Commons
English
baj 9783946198314;9783946198291;9783946198307
10.16994/baj doi
United Kingdom, Great Britain
Scotland
Literature & literary studies
Literary studies: post-colonial literature
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
scottish studies modern fiction postcolonial studies contemporary scottish fiction England Scotland Scots language Working class