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Introduction
No full textA short history of (the relationship between) postcolonial studies and Scottish studies, followed by a theoretical and methodological analysis of how the book that this chapter introduces is situated in the field of postcolonial Scottish studies
Paolozzi at Large in Edinburgh: Artworks and Creative Responses ed. by Christine De Luca and Carlo Pirozzi (review)
No full textThis is a review of an interdisciplinary work focused on Eduardo Paolozzi's art and his relationship with native Edinburgh, and involving scholars and academics working in the fields of art, history and literature
Talking About A Revolution? The 1968 Italian TV Adaptation Of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Black Arrow’
No full textThe article explores the reception, interpretation, and assimilation of La freccia nera, the late-1960s Italian television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure story The Black Arrow
Uno sguardo innocente. Falco e Ombra di Kathleen Jamie
No full textReview of a bilingual (English/Italian) anthology of Kathleen Jamie's poetry
A poet-critic in love with Europe (and Scotland)
No full textA tribute to Douglas Dunn as a poet and an academic critic as well as one of the Scottish intellectuals who, in the 20th century, contributed to the inter/national definition of Scottish literature
SCOTT HAMES. The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation
No full textThe review showcases the innovative contribution of Scott Hames's recent monograph on The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Natio
Richard J. Grace, Opium and Empire: The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson, Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press 2014
No full textThe review focuses on the extraordinary role played by Scottish traders Jardine and Matheson, giants on the scene at Macao, Canton and Hong Kong during the First Opium War, and highlights the importance of the study in object to bring to light hitherto invisible networks of collusion across the British Empire
The Destabilisation of Gender and National Boundaries in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair: A Long Nineteenth-Century Perspective
No full textThis chapter explores the nexus between nation and gender in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair, one of the most iconic texts of modern Scottish literature. By questioning canonical readings of the trilogy, focused on a conventionally nationalist stance or on the ‘realistic’ components of Gibbon’s masterpiece, it attracts the attention on its subtle, radical re-drawing of gender and national boundaries, especially in relation to its two central characters, Chris and her son Ewan. The chapter identifies a subtle androgynous subtext in the trilogy — a (cross-)gender imagi-nation, interestingly reverberating the perspective of a number of nineteenth-century Scottish literary texts. While Gibbon’s trilogy may not be consistently radical, it nonetheless creates ‘a ‘dislocated’ discursive system, whose inherent tensions and ambivalences powerfully subvert contemporary notions of nation and gender identity
Muriel Spark’s Italian palimpsests
Full text linkItaly was Muriel Spark’s elective country of residence for 40 years, the first decade of which, from 1967, when she settled in Rome, till the end of the 70s, represented one of the most contradictory and yet intellectually fertile periods of Italian modern history. Notwithstanding such long-lasting and meaningful bond, explicitly represented in a number of her works, her complex relationship with the culture and history of this country remains largely under-investigated. The article contends that Italy plays an important role in the shaping of Spark’s literary imagination, and that ‘Italian palimpsests’ can be traced in her work throughout her career. Taking the palimpsest as a trope of transformation and construction that implies border-crossing and transit, the article focuses on four novels – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Public Image, The Takeover, Territorial Rights – which explicitly engage with Italy and Italianness. From her investigation of the aesthetics of Fascism in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, to her re-vision of Italian filmic and popular culture in The Public Image and The Takeover, and her playful representation of the palimpsestic literary imagination of Venice in Territorial Rights, Spark’s engagement with Italy's high and popular culture is shown to be rich, complex and transformative
Gaelic Scotland and Post-Colonial Readings
Full text linkA review of Silke Strohe's book Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination: Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 (2017), setting it in the context of Strohe's earlier work on Gaelic literature in the same period and of developments in the post-colonial theory as applied in interdisciplinary Scottish studies
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