Performing Scottishness : enactment and national identities / Ian Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Ian, 1945 February 28- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scotland--Social life and customs.

Scotland.

Manners and customs.

National characteristics.

Physical Description:

x, 278 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Summary:

This wide-ranging and ground-breaking book, especially relevant given Brexit and renewed Scottish independence campaigning, provides in-depth analysis of ways Scottishness has been performed and modified over the centuries. Alongside theatre, television, comedy, and film, it explores performativity in public events, Anglo-Scottish relations, language and literary practice, the Scottish diaspora and concepts of nation, borders and hybridity. 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 Scotlands 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.

Contents:

1. Chapter 1: Introduction: Representational and Representative Performance of the Nation

Chapter 2: Nationhood, the Declaration of Arbroath and an exploding pillar box

Chapter 3: The Treaty of Union, Scoto-Britishness and Anglo-Britain

Chapter 4: Bards, Britishness, buildings and cultural memory

Chapter 5: Cultural communication, language performance and national literatures

Chapter 6: Imagined borders, subverted centres and hybridity

Chapter 7: Tartan enactments and performing hybridity

Chapter 8: Language and resistance in theatre, music hall and variety

Chapter 9: Comedy, television, hybridity and Scottish Camp

Chapter 10: Film from oligopoly to The Angels Share

Chapter 11: Internalising exile at home and away.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Brown, Ian. Performing Scottishness.

ISBN:

3030394069

9783030394066

OCLC:

1133125787