Subaltern ethics in contemporary Scottish and Irish literature tracing counter-histories / [electronic resource] :
Stefanie Lehner.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- xi, 231 p.
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.
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English fiction--Irish authors--History and criticism. English fiction--Scottish authors--History and criticism. History in literature. Ethics in literature. Literature and history--History--Ireland--20th century. Literature and history--History--Ireland--21st century. Literature and history--History--Scotland--20th century. Literature and history--History--Scotland--21st century.