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ISBN: | 9789401200578 9401200572 9042033584 9789042033580
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-369) and index. In English; includes text in Scottish Gaelic with English translation. Print version record.
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Summary: | Scottish and "Celtic fringe" postcolonialism has caused much controversy and unease in literary studies. Can the non-English territories and peoples of the British Isles, faced with centuries of English hegemony, be meaningfully compared to former overseas colonies? This book is the first comprehensive study of this topic which offers an in-depth study of Gaelic literature. It investigates the complex interplay between Celticity, Gaeldom, Scottish and British national identity, and international colonial and postcolonial discourse. It situates post/colonial elements in Gaelic poetry within a w.
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Other form: | Print version: Stroh, Silke. Uneasy Subjects : Postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic Poetry. Amsterdam : Rodopi, ©2011 9789042033580
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