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Nähere Auskünfte zu den CC-Lizenzen finden see: Sie hier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.de 1 Across the margins Norquay_00_Prelims 1 22/3/02, 9:26 am Norquay_00_Prelims 2 22/3/02, 9:26 am 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 Norquay_00_Prelims 3 22/3/02, 9:27 am Copyright © Manchester University Press 2002 While copyright in the volume is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher. Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NR, UK and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 1000, USA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA Distributed exclusively in Canada by UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 2029 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Cu ISBN 0 7190 5749 3 First published 2002 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Typeset in Caslon and Frutiger Condensed by Koinonia Ltd, Manchester Printed in Great Britain by Bookcraft (Bath) Ltd, Midsomer Norton Norquay_00_Prelims 4 22/3/02, 9:27 am 1 Contents Notes on contributors page vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction: crossing the margins Glenda Norquay and Gerry Smyth 1 PART ITHEORISING 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 Norquay_00_Prelims 5 22/3/02, 9:27 am vi Contents 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 Norquay_00_Prelims 6 22/3/02, 9:27 am 1 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. Norquay_00_Prelims 7 22/3/02, 9:27 am 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. Norquay_00_Prelims 8 22/3/02, 9:27 am Notes on contributors ix 1 Acknowledgements The idea for this book emerged from two conferences organised between Liverpool John Moores University and its then ERASMUS partner, the Uni- versity of the Basque Country. We are grateful to all the contributors to those events, in particular to Roger Bromley and Linden Peach for their help and sustained interest. Edna Longley and Cairns Craig made valuable comments on early proposals. We would also like to thank Aileen Christianson and Shaun Richards for helpful comments and suggestions, and particularly Timothy Ashplant who gave generously of his time and support. Thanks are due also to the editors’ colleagues within the Department of English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University for their support of the sabbatical programme which facilitated work on this project. Glenda Norquay acknowledges the financial support of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities in Scotland, during a Research Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, at which some of this work was carried out. The prompt responses of contributors, the insights of Matthew Frost and the anonymous readers at Manchester University Press, and the efficiency of editorial staff at various stages, made this project much pleasanter that it might otherwise have been. Norquay_00_Prelims 9 22/3/02, 9:27 am 1 Introduction: crossing the margins GLENDA NORQUAY AND GERRY SMYTH ‘So there it was, our territory’, writes the narrator in Seamus Deane’s novel-cum-memoir Reading in the Dark (1997: 59), claiming his own particular domain with all the confidence of childhood.