Subaltern ethics in contemporary Scottish and Irish literature :
[Book]
tracing counter-histories /
Stefanie Lehner
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011
xi, 231 p. ;
23 cm
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
Ethics in literature
History 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