TY - JOUR
T1 - Provincialising MacDiarmid
T2 - Decolonisation and Scottish literary history
AU - Thomson, Alex
PY - 2024/2/13
Y1 - 2024/2/13
N2 - Examines the development of MacDiarmid's aesthetic and political views, in light of decolonial theory and criticism, as showing the 'inexorable and exigent doubling of Scotland with Empire', arguing that though MacDiarmid has been central to the construction of a postcolonial Scottish literary history, free from historical anxiety, a decolonial approach unsettles the narrative of Scotttish exceptionalism and challenges the political romanticism associated with the aesthetic construction of the national, endorsed by MacDiarmid and continued by recent cultural and literary histories [Ed.] .
AB - Examines the development of MacDiarmid's aesthetic and political views, in light of decolonial theory and criticism, as showing the 'inexorable and exigent doubling of Scotland with Empire', arguing that though MacDiarmid has been central to the construction of a postcolonial Scottish literary history, free from historical anxiety, a decolonial approach unsettles the narrative of Scotttish exceptionalism and challenges the political romanticism associated with the aesthetic construction of the national, endorsed by MacDiarmid and continued by recent cultural and literary histories [Ed.] .
UR - https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/
U2 - 10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.9
DO - 10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.9
M3 - Article
SN - 0039-3770
VL - 49
SP - 143
EP - 162
JO - Studies in Scottish Literature
JF - Studies in Scottish Literature
IS - 1
M1 - 9
ER -