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Subaltern ethics in contemporary Scottish and Irish literature [electronic resource] : tracing counter-histories /

by Lehner, Stefanie; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Description: xi, 231 p.ISBN: ; ; .Subject(s): English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | English fiction -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism | History in literature | Ethics in literature | Literature and history -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century | Literature and history -- Ireland -- History -- 21st century | Literature and history -- Scotland -- History -- 20th century | Literature and history -- Scotland -- History -- 21st century | Ireland -- In literature | Scotland -- In literature | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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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