Overview
Approaches the topic from a variety of perspectives: cultural, dramatic and historical
Explores performance not only in drama but also in film, television and public discourse
Makes a timely intervention into conceptions of nationality and identity
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Following discussion of the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath and the real meanings of the 1706/7 Treaty of Union, it examines the differing perceptions of what the ‘United Kingdom’ means to Scots and English. It contrasts the treatment of Shakespeare and Burns as ‘national bards’ and considers the implications of Scottish scholars’ invention of ‘English Literature’. It engages with Scotland’s language politics –rebutting claims of a ‘Gaelic Gestapo’ – and how borders within Scotland interact. It replaces myths about ‘tartan monsters’ with level-headed evidence before discussing in detail representations of Scottishness in domestic and international media.
Reviews
“This book presents an interesting and wide-ranging discussion of the performance of Scottish identity at different points of history, informed largely by the author’s long and distinguished career in theatre, critical and literary studies. … I am confident that this wide-ranging account of performance in Scottish identity will be of great use to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Scottish culture, as well as to wider interested audiences.” (Stuart S. Dunmore, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, June 11, 2023)
“This book covers a lot of ground historically and generically and it is a tribute to Brown’s scholarship and synoptic talent that he makes a good fist of holding all this material together in a coherent argument.” (Media Education Journal, Issue 67, 2020)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performing Scottishness
Book Subtitle: Enactment and National Identities
Authors: Ian Brown
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39407-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39406-6Published: 14 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39409-7Published: 14 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39407-3Published: 13 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 278
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: National/Regional Theatre and Performance, Contemporary Theatre, Performing Arts, Self and Identity