Centring on the Peripheries: Essays on Scandinavian, Scottish, Gaelic and Greenlandic Literature

The essays in "Centring on the Peripheries" explore how Scandinavian and Scottish scholars tell the stories of connections, boundaries, and localities that might go undetected by historians and artists in metropolitan centers. They demonstrate that relations between core and periphery are in constant flux, offering unexpected perspectives on cultural roots and routes between cultures. The book appeals to scholars of cultural identity, postcolonialism, and European literature, as well as readers who enjoy exploring the borderlands of the literary canon.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 226 pages
Publication date: 25 February 2021
Publisher: Norvik Press

Are the peripheries the new center? How do the debatable lands of Scandinavia and Scotland write their relations with their national centers, and with each other? Is the story of the margins just a figment of the metropole's imagination? How have postcolonialism and postnationalism made themselves felt in the literature of the cultural patchwork of Northern Europe? In these sixteen essays, Scandinavian and Scottish scholars trace ways to tell the stories of connections, boundaries, and localities that might go undetected by historians and artists in the metropolitan centers. Centering on the Peripheries opens up unexpected perspectives on cultural roots and on the routes between cultures, demonstrating that relations between core and periphery are in constant flux. It will appeal to scholars of cultural identity, postcolonialism, and European literature, and to readers who delight in exploring the borderlands of the literary canon.

Are the peripheries the new center? How do the debatable lands of Scandinavia and Scotland write their relations with their national centers, and with each other? Is the story of the margins just a figment of the metropole's imagination? How have postcolonialism and postnationalism made themselves felt in the literature of the cultural patchwork of Northern Europe? In these sixteen essays, Scandinavian and Scottish scholars trace ways to tell the stories of connections, boundaries, and localities that might go undetected by historians and artists in the metropolitan centers. Centering on the Peripheries opens up unexpected perspectives on cultural roots and on the routes between cultures, demonstrating that relations between core and periphery are in constant flux. It will appeal to scholars of cultural identity, postcolonialism, and European literature, and to readers who delight in exploring the borderlands of the literary canon.

Weight: 344g
Dimension: 154 x 233 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781909408623