HomeChapter Two: Anti-Colonialism in
Scottish, Welsh and Irish Literatures (Some Links)
2.1 England is not Britain
- England,
Great Britain and the United Kingdom
-
British or English (discussion with follow-up messages)
2.2 Literature in English by the Non-English in Britain I
o Hostility towards England
- Sinn
Féin And Socialism (1908) by James Connolly
- First
Chapter of Angel in the Mist (1998), a medieval fantasy romance by
Marti Phillips
2.3 Literature in English by the Non-English in Britain II
-
Black British Literature since Windrush by Onyekachi Wambu
2.4 Scottish, Welsh and Irish Literatures
- Anglo-Irish
Literature by Alfred Perceval Graves
- Island
Ireland
-
Overview
of Scottish Literature
- Scottish
Authors
- Welsh
literature (from the Columbia Encyclopedia)
- Centre
for Research into the English Language and Literature of Wales
2.5 Nationalism in These Literatures
- The 1916 Easter Uprising:
The Shift in Support of Irish Nationalism
- 'Easter
1916' by W.B. Yeats
- Irish
Nationalism: Themes of Survival and Transcendence in Modern Irish Literature
(1996) by Shirley Galloway
-
Review
of Robert Tracy's The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identity
by Bruce Stewart
- Cultural
and Political Nationalism in Wales by Johan Schimanski
- James
VI and the Development of Scottish National Identity by Carolyn Ives
- The
History of Beginnings by Paul Haacke (book review)
-
The
Development of Scottish Nationalism Aalborg University student project
o Problems with nationalism in literature
- What
Is Nationalism?
2.6 Anglo-Irish, -Scottish and -Welsh literatures as postcolonial literatures
o Anglo-Irish literature
- Theories
of Post-Coloniality: Edward W. Said and W.B. Yeats
- William
Butler Yeats and Postcolonialism (2000) by Elizabeth Brewer
-
Review
of Gerry Smyth's Decolonisation and Criticism by Bruce Stewart
o Anglo-Scottish literature
-
Modes of Marginality:
Scottish Literature and the Uses of Postcolonial Theory by Liam Connell,
Comparative Studies
of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East,
23:1&2 (2003): 41–53
o Anglo-Welsh literature
- Finding
a Voice: Welsh Writing in English by Tony Brown, Hard Times 63
(1998): 4–7.
- Welsh Literature: 20th
Century, Pt III
2.7 Use of Dialects and Linguistic Violence
- Dialects
and Languages
- Language
or Dialect?
- What
is Scots? (2000) by Andy Eagle
o James Kelman
- An
Interview with James Kelman (2002) by Fabio Vericat
o Irvine Welsh
- Trainspotting
as a way of introducing the Scottish to the label of "language"
(1998) by Gala Zamora
o The f-word and anti-colonialism: an Australian digression
- Australian Word Map: Vulgar
language
- How
to Do Things with Four-Letter Words: A study of the semantics of swearing in
Australia (1993) by Angus Kidman
o The f-word and anti-colonialism: back to Kelman
- meaning
from The American Heritage® Dictionary (2000)
-
Uses
of the word...
2.8 Suppression of the Celtic Languages
- Should
minority languages be protected? (BBC web forum)
- Introduction
to Manx (1995) by Dr. Brian Stowell
o Survival of the Celtic languages
- Unesco Red Book on Endangered Languages (Europe) by Tapani
Salminen:
Irish
Gaelic, Scottish
Gaelic, Welsh
-
Celtic
Literature, by Matthew Arnold
- Gaelic
literature (from the Columbia Encyclopedia)
- What
is Welsh?
- Cwylwe
-
The
Social, Economic & Political Reasons for the Decline of Gaelic in Scotland
by Ewan J. Innes (1993)
- Scotland's
Languages in Scotland's Parliament (1998) by Wilson McLeod
-
Gaelic in
the New Scotland: Politics, Rhetoric and Public Discourse (pdf;
2001) by Wilson McLeod|
- Celtic
Identity by Gearoid O Tuathaigh
- - - - Nationalists
and the Irish Language in Northern Ireland: Competing Perspectives by
Camille O'Reilly (1999)
2.9 Pattern seen in other postcolonial literatures
- Suppression
of Indigenous Sovereignty in 20th Century United States by Ward Churchill