Across the margins : cultural identity and change in the Atlantic archipelago /

Across the margins : cultural identity and change in the Atlantic archipelago / edited by Glenda Norquay and Gerry Smyth. - 1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) : file(s).

Description based upon print version of record. First published: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Theorising identities across the Atlantic Archipelago -- 1. Ireland, verses, Scotland : crossing the (English) language barrier / Willy Maley -- 2. 'A warmer memory' : speaking of Ireland / Colin Graham -- 3. 'Where do you belong?' : De-scribing imperial identity from alien to migrant / Peter Childs -- 4. Gender and nation : debatable lands and passable boundaries / Aileen Christianson -- 5. The union and jack : British masculinities, pomophobia, and the post-nation / Berthold Schoene -- part II. Cultural negotiations -- 6. Paper margins : the 'outside' in poetry in the 1980s and 1990s / Linden Peach -- 7. Sounding out the margins : ethnicity and popular music in British cultural studies / Sean Campbell -- 8. Cool enough for Lou Reed? : the plays of Ed Thomas and the cultural politics of South Wales / Shaun Richards -- 9. Waking up in a different place : contemporary Irish and Scottish fiction / Glenda Norquay and Gerry Smyth -- 10. Finding Scottish art / Murdo Macdonald -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Contributors to this text discuss what it is to be British or Irish, and how people come to describe themselves as such. The study offers a comparative, theoretically informed analysis of the cultural formation of the Atlantic Archipelago, working across the disciplines of history, geography, literature and cultural studies. It also includes specific case-studies on contemporary poetry, fiction, drama, popular music and art. The essaye respond to recent constitutional developments in Great Britain and Ireland, exploring their implications both for the cultural negotiation of marginality and fo.


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English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.
Scottish literature--History and criticism.
English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.
English literature--Welsh authors--History and criticism.
Literature: History & Criticism.
Civilization
English literature--Irish authors
English literature--Scottish authors
English literature--Welsh authors
Scottish literature


Ireland--Civilization--20th century.
Scotland--Civilization--20th century.
Northern Ireland--Civilization.
Wales--Civilization.
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales

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Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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