Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature

Introduction Michael Gardiner Part I: Postcolonial Revisions: Coloniality and Empire in Scottish Writing 1786-1914 1 A 'Conceptual Alliance': 'Interculturation' in Robert Burns and Kamau Brathwaite Leith Davis and Kristen Kahlis 2 'Almost the Same as Being Innocent': Celebrated Murderesses and National Narratives in Walter Scott's The Heart of Mid-Lothian and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace Evan Gottlieb 3 Annals of Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro Katie Trumpener 4 Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Poetic Tradition Douglas S. Mack 5 Captains of Industry, Lords of Misrule: Carlyle and the Second Scottish Enlightenment Christopher Harvie 6 Literary Affinities and the Postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad Linda Dryden 7 John Buchan and Wilson Harris: Myth and Counter-Myth, Exploration and Empire David Punter Part II: Postcolonialism and Modern Scottish Literature 1914-1979 8 Wole Soyinka and Hugh MacDiarmid: The Violence and Virtues of Nations Alan Riach 9 Neil M. Gunn, Chinua Achebe and the Postcolonial Debate Margery Palmer McCulloch 10 'East is West and West is East': Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism Scott Lyall 11 Unfinished Business: Muriel Spark and Hannah Arendt in Palestine Martin McQuillan 12 Rewriting and the Politics of Inheritance in Robin Jenkins and Jean Rhys Marina MacKay Part III: Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Literature 13 Race, Nation, Class and Language Use in Tom Leonard's Intimate Voices and Linton Kwesi Johnson's Mi Revalueshanary Fren Liam Connell and Victoria Sheppard 14 Conversion and Subversion in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela's The Translator Willy Maley 15 This is not sarcasm believe me yours sincerely: James Kelman, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Amos Tutuola Iain Lambert 16 'Our Little Life is Rounded with a Sleep': The Scottish Presence in Andrew Greig's In Another Light and Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide Bashabi Fraser 17 'Dangerous Liaisons': Gender Politics in the Contemporary Scottish and Irish ImagiNation Stefanie Lehner 18 Captain Thistlewood's Jacobite: Reading the Caribbean in Scotland's Historiography of Slavery Joseph Jackson Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index SECTION 1: Postcolonial Revisions: Coloniality and Empire in Scottish writing 1786-1914 1 A 'Conceptual Alliance': 'Interculturation' in Robert Burns and Kamau Braithwaite Leith Davis and Kristen Kahlis; 2 'Almost the Same as Being Innocent': Celebrated Murderesses and National Narratives in Walter Scott's The Heart of Mid-Lothian and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace Evan Gottlieb; 3 Annals of Ice: formations of empire, place, and history in John Galt and Alice Munro; Katie Trumpener; 4 Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Poetic Tradition Douglas S. Mack; 5 Captains of Industry, Lords of Misrule: Carlyle and the second Scottish Enlightenment Christopher Harvie; 6 Literary Affinities and the Postcolonial in Stevenson and Conrad Linda Dryden; 7 John Buchan and Wilson Harris: Myths and Counter-Myth, Exploration and Empire David Punter SECTION II: Postcolonialism and Modern Scottish Literature 1914-1979; 8 Wole Soyinka and Hugh MacDiarmid: the Violence and Virtues of Nations Alan Riach; 9 Neil M. Gunn, Chinua Achebe and the Postcolonial Debate Margery Palmer McCulloch; 10 'East is West and West is East': Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism Scott Lyall; 11 Unfinished Business: Muriel Spark and Hannah Arendt in Palestine Martin McQuillan; 12 Rewriting and the Politics of Inheritance in Robin Jenkins and Jean Rhys Marina McKay SECTION III: Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Literature; 13 Race, Nation, Class and Language Use in Tom Leonard's Intimate Voices and Linton Kwesi Johnson's Mi Revalueshanary Fren Liam Connell and Victoria Sheppard; 14 Conversion and Subversion in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela's The Translator Willy Maley; 15 This is not sarcasm believe me yours sincerely: James Kelman, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Amos Tutuola Iain Lambert; 16 'Our Little Life is Rounded with a Sleep': The Scottish presence in Andrew Greig and Amitav Ghosh Bashabi Fraser; 17 'Dangerous Liaisons': Gender Politics in the Contemporary Scottish and Irish ImagiNation Stefanie Lehner; 18 Captain Thistlewood's Jacobite: Reading the Caribbean in Scotland's Historiography of Slavery Joseph Jackson