Rejecting Limits and Opening Possibilities in the Works of Iain Banks
This text deals with the question of Scottish self-definition and also the escape from it. Scottish identity debate in 1980s and 1990s took on different forms and searched for other inspirations: outside Scotland or in dealing with identities traditionally overlooked due to the overall focus on nati...
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Published in | American and British Studies Annual Vol. 9 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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University of Pardubice
01.11.2016
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Summary: | This text deals with the question of Scottish self-definition and also the escape from it. Scottish identity debate in 1980s and 1990s took on different forms and searched for other inspirations: outside Scotland or in dealing with identities traditionally overlooked due to the overall focus on national identity. This paper thus analyses the question of Scottishness through the subversive voice addressing the identities traditionally problematic in Scotland or even through individual self-definition as presented in Iain Banks’s novels The Wasp Factory (1984) and The Crow Road (1992). |
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ISSN: | 1803-6058 2788-2233 |