Across the margins : cultural identity and change in the Atlantic archipelago / edited by Glenda Norquay and Gerry Smyth.

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TextPublisher: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2018, 2002Distributor: New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) : file(s)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1526137224
9781847791276
1847791271
9781280733949
1280733942
9786610733941
6610733945
9781526137227

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

306.0941 941.5

LOC classification:

DA959.1 .A28 2002

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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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.