Metropolitan Anxieties

Metropolitan Anxieties

On the Meaning of the Irish Catholic Adventure in Scotland

Boyle, Dr. Mark

Taylor & Francis Ltd

08/2011

296

Dura

Inglês

9780754633792

15 a 20 dias

Drawing upon post-colonial critiques of the provincial nature of metropolitan theory, this book approaches Scotland's shame debate as, in many ways, itself a classic metrocentric cultural struggle over the true and essential telos of a once colonised population.
Contents: Preface: liberating nausea; Provincialising the Scotland's Secret Shame debate: an enquiry into the meaning of the Irish Catholic adventure in Scotland. Part I Topological Mappings and Their Limits: Metropolitan anxieties: a critical appraisal of Sartre's theory of colonialism; The Scotland's Secret Shame debate: approach and method. Part II Topographical Mappings of the Irish Catholic Adventure in Scotland: Prologue: the oral history archive; National identity, estrangement and belonging: who are the Irish Catholics in Scotland?; Imagining home: holidays, the farm, and the craic; The politics of anti-imperialism: activists, agitators, and advocates; Ways of life and the life of ways: culture, faith and family; Immigrant advancement: poverty, education and equality. Part III Cartographical Reflection: Method and Dialogue Under Scrutiny: Masses, spontaneity and tribe: in search of the intelligibility of the Irish Catholic adventure in Scotland; References; Index,
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