Abstract
Examines the development of MacDiarmid's aesthetic and political views, in light of decolonial theory and criticism, as showing the 'inexorable and exigent doubling of Scotland with Empire', arguing that though MacDiarmid has been central to the construction of a postcolonial Scottish literary history, free from historical anxiety, a decolonial approach unsettles the narrative of Scotttish exceptionalism and challenges the political romanticism associated with the aesthetic construction of the national, endorsed by MacDiarmid and continued by recent cultural and literary histories [Ed.] .
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Thomson, Alex
(2024)
"Provincialising MacDiarmid: Decolonisation and Scottish Literary History,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 49:
Iss.
1, 143–162.
DOI: 10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.9
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol49/iss1/9