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Across the margins
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Across the margins
Cultural identity and change
in the Atlantic archipelago
EDITED BY GLENDA NORQUAY
AND GERRY SMYTH
Manchester University Press
Manchester and New York
distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
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Copyright © Manchester University Press 2002
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Contents
Notes on contributors page vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: crossing the margins
Glenda Norquay and Gerry Smyth 1
PART I THEORISING IDENTITIES
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC ARCHIPELAGO
1 Ireland, verses, Scotland: crossing the (English) language
barrier Willy Maley 13
2 ‘A warmer memory’: speaking of Ireland Colin Graham 31
3 ‘Where do you belong?’: De-scribing Imperial identity from
alien to migrant Peter Childs 50
4 Gender and nation: debatable lands and passable boundaries
Aileen Christianson 67
5 The Union and Jack: British masculinities, pomophobia,
and the post-nation Berthold Schoene 83
PART II CULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS
6 Paper margins: the ‘outside’ in poetry in the 1980s and 1990s
Linden Peach 101
7 Sounding out the margins: ethnicity and popular music
in British cultural studies Sean Campbell 117
8 Cool enough for Lou Reed?: The plays of Ed Thomas
and the cultural politics of South Wales Shaun Richards 137
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9 Waking up in a different place: contemporary Irish and
Scottish fiction Glenda Norquay and Gerry Smyth 154
10 Finding Scottish art Murdo Macdonald 171
Bibliography 185
Index 206
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Notes on contributors
Sean Campbell is a lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at
Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. A graduate of the Universities of
Glasgow and Strathclyde, he is currently researching the second-generation Irish
in post-war England, focusing specifically on cultural production and identity-
formation. His publications include articles in Immigrants and Minorities, Irish
Studies Review, and The Great Famine and Beyond: Irish Migrants in Britain in the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2000).
Peter Childs has published articles on Paul Scott, E. M. Forster and Hanif
Kureishi. He has also edited a reader in Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature
for Edinburgh University Press and written, together with Patrick Williams, An
Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory. Currently lecturing at Cheltenham and
Gloucester College of Higher Education, he is the author or editor of eight
books, of which the most recent are Modernism (2000) and Reading Fiction (2001).
Aileen Christianson is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Litera-
ture, Edinburgh University, specialising in nineteenth- and twentieth-century
Scottish literature and women’s writing. She has been on the editorial team of
the Duke–Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh
Carlyle, vols 1–28, 1970–200, since 1967. She was a member of the Edinburgh
Rape Crisis Centre Collective, 1978–96.
Colin Graham is Lecturer in Irish Writing at Queen’s University Belfast. He is
the author of Ideologies of Epic: Nation, Empire and Victorian Epic Poetry (1998),
Deconstructing Ireland: Identity, Theory, Culture (2001), and co-editor with
Richard Kirkland of Ireland and Cultural Theory: The Mechanics of Authenticity
(1999).
Murdo Macdonald is Professor of History of Scottish Art at the University of
Dundee. His recent publications include Scottish Art in Thames and Hudson’s
World of Art series and ‘Patrick Geddes and Scottish Generalism’ in Welter and
Lawson (eds) The City after Patrick Geddes. He was editor of Edinburgh Review
from 1990 to 1994.
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viii Notes on contributors
Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow.
He has published widely on aspects of early modern and modern Scottish and
Irish culture, and is the author of Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and
Identity (1997), and editor (with Andrew Hadfield) of A View of the Present State
of Ireland (1997). He has been a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, New
Hampshire (1997), and was the first recipient of the Gerard Manley Hopkins
Visiting Professorship at John Carroll University in Cleveland (1998). He is
presently working on a number of projects concerning the ‘British Problem’ in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Glenda Norquay is Reader in Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores Univer-
sity. She has published widely on Scottish women’s writing. Other publications
include Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign
(1995), and Stevenson on Fiction (1999). She is currently working on a monograph
on Stevenson’s reading practices.
Linden Peach is Professor of Modern Literature at Loughborough University.
His publications include booklength studies of Virginia Woolf (2000), Toni
Morrison (2000) and Angela Carter (1998). He is also the author of Ancestral
Lines: Culture and Identity in the Work of Six Contemporary Poets (1993), and has
written extensively on Welsh writing in English. He is co-author (with Angela
Burton) of English as a Creative Art: Literary Concepts Linked to Creative Writing
(1995).
Shaun Richards is Professor of Irish Studies at Staffordshire University, special-
ising in the cultural politics of Irish Literature, specifically that of the drama. He
has published widely in this area, most notably Writing Ireland (1988) which he
co-authored with David Cairns. Among his current projects is the editing of the
Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Drama.
Berthold Schoene is Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Liverpool John
Moores University. His research interests include postcoloniality, Scottish litera-
ture, and literary representations of masculinity. Besides publishing essays on Iain
Banks, Hanif Kureishi, Meera Syal, and Scottish culture and postcoloniality, he
is the author of Writing Men: Literary Masculinities from Frankenstein to the New
Man (2000). His current research is on ‘Autism and the Subject of Masculinity’.
Gerry Smyth is Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores Univer-
sity. He has published widely on various aspects of Irish cultural history. His
most recent book is Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination (2001), and he is
currently working on a critical history of Irish rock music.
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