Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives

Edited by Michael Gardiner, Graeme MacDonald and Niall O'Gallagher

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August, 2011
Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3774-4
Edinburgh University Press
$105.00

This groundbreaking collection is the first volume to map the relationship between Scottish literature and postcolonial studies. Despite Scottish involvement in the British Empire, the advent of devolution together with the development of Scottish literary traditions has encouraged critics to re-read Scottish texts in a postcolonial light. This collection compares Scottish writing to works produced in postcolonial countries. It proves the value of the postcolonial approach to Scottish literary studies and the challenge that Scottish literature poses to debates in postcolonialism.

About the Author

Michael Gardiner is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Graeme MacDonald is a lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Niall O'Gallagher is honorary research associate in the Department of Celtic at the University of Glasgow.

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