Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
Eleanor Bell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Strathclyde.
In his Preface to Community in Modern Scottish Literature, Scott Lyall contextualises some of the key ways in which community is conceived of in the contemporary period. Making reference to prominent theorists in the field, he sets out various applications of the concept of community. For David Harvey, for example, community ‘offers hope and warning: communities […]
Following in the footsteps of Irish Studies, over the last two decades a number of attempts have been made at linking Scottish literature with postcolonial theory. Often, however, these applications have been viewed with scepticism: can Scottish literature really be thought of as postcolonial? Is this this really an appropriate way of thinking about Scottish culture? Such have been […]