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Gaelic Scotland And Post-Colonial Readings, Carla Sassi
Gaelic Scotland And Post-Colonial Readings, Carla Sassi
Studies in Scottish Literature
A 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.
'When The Birds Spoke Gaelic': Periodization And Challenges Of Classification For Scottish Gaelic Literature, Michael Newton
'When The Birds Spoke Gaelic': Periodization And Challenges Of Classification For Scottish Gaelic Literature, Michael Newton
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses issues of periodization in the history of Scottish Gaelic literature and argues for the importance of generic classification as a counterpoise to period because of the importance of literary traditions that cross conventional literary of historical period boundaries.
Sorley Maclean's Other Clearance Poems, Petra Johana Poncarová
Sorley Maclean's Other Clearance Poems, Petra Johana Poncarová
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the treatment of the Highland Clearances, specifically the clearances from his home-island of Raasay, in the work of the Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain, 1911-1996), not only in his best-known Clearance poem "Hallaig," but in his prose writings, his major early sequence An Cuilithionn (1939, but not fully published till 2011), and several important shorter poems, “Am Putan Airgid” (“The Silver Button”), “‘Tha na beanntan gun bhruidhinn,’” and (more fully) “Sgreapadal.”