Subaltern Ethics in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Literature

This book develops an innovative Irish-Scottish postcolonial approach by galvanizing Emmanuel Levinas' ethics with the socio-cultural category of the 'subaltern'. It sheds new light on contemporary Scottish and Irish fiction, exploring how these writings interact with the recent restructuring of the three state-formations in Ireland and Scotland.

This book develops an innovative Irish-Scottish postcolonial approach by galvanizing Emmanuel Levinas' ethics with the socio-cultural category of the 'subaltern'. It sheds new light on contemporary Scottish and Irish fiction, exploring how these writings interact with the recent restructuring of the three state-formations in Ireland and Scotland.

List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Irish-Scottish Crosscurrents: Towards an Archipelagic Subaltern Aesth Ethics (D)evolutions? Transformations in the Scottish & Irish ImagiNation 'Buried in Silence and Oblivion': Subaltern Counter-Histories in the Scottish-Irish Archipelago James Kelman's 'Naval History' and Robert McLiam Wilson's 'The Dreamed' 'History stands so still, it gathers dust': Mapping Ethical Disjunctures in Contemporary Ireland and Scotland Patrick McCabe's The Dead School and James Kelman's You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free 'Measuring Silences': The Northern Irish Peace Process as Arkhe -Taintment? Glenn Patterson's That Which Was and Eoin McNamee's The Ultras 'Un-Remembering History': Traumatic Herstories in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors , Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing and Jennifer Johnston's The Invisible Worm Feminine Futures?: Gender Trouble in the Allegorical ImagiNation Alasdair Gray's 1982 Janine and Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto Conclusion Works Cited Index