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Across the margins: Cultural identity and change in the Atlantic archipelago

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This book makes no claims to provide a comprehensive, or indeed a
coherent, model of what an archipelagic cultural studies should look like.
That will be the task of individuals and groups from many backgrounds
working over time in many different institutional and intellectual circumstances.
There has been one development, however, which because of its
ubiquitous nature may prove enduring, and which because of its influence
upon all the essays gathered here is worth signalling. It is a development
implicit in the new history that, we have suggested, provides the imprimatur
for an archipelagic cultural criticism.

What we are alluding to here is the initiation of a new historical
(and, in this volume, a new critical) subject in terms of a new geographical
perspective. The complexity of this refraction is evident in the issue of
definition: the term ‘British’ has clearly evolved to the point where it
cannot be used unproblematically, and there have been various attempts
to invent alternative geographical definitions which might signify the
issues at stake in clearer ways. The term we favour here – Atlantic archipelago
– may prove to be of no greater use in the long run, but at this
stage it does at least have the merit of questioning the ideology underpinning
more established nomenclature. It is, moreover, essentially a
geographical term – both locational and descriptive – and this provides a
clue as to the manner in which a cross-marginal cultural criticism might
set about identifying appropriate archives and methodologies. For at
roughly the same time as ‘the history of the Atlantic archipelago’ was
emerging in Britain and Ireland, the field of what has come to be known
as ‘new’ or ‘postmodern’ geography was also in the process of consolidation,
much of the time in different departments of the same institutions.

While a number of recent books have addressed the historical and
political framework of the Atlantic archipelago, the focus of this volume
is on cultural practices within that context – an area in which there is less
work done. Although both the Scots–Irish Research Network (based at
the University of Strathclyde) and the Research Institute in Irish and
Scottish Studies (based at the University of Aberdeen and to be known
from January 2001 as the AHRB Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies in
recognition of an impressive grant from that body) have produced
excellent multidisciplinary research, it would appear that scholars are still
most confident when working with identifiable cross-border connections
– such as neglected political networks in Scottish and Irish history,
for example, or in shared cultural frameworks – than tracing intersections
in contemporary culture and literature. We hope therefore that
this book contributes to critical analysis which, whilst acknowledging
the hard-won specificity of concerns in writing from different geographical
locations, also moves beyond the diachronic formation of
national literatures and cultures.

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Judul Seri

Across the margins

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New York : Manchester University Press., 2002

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viii, 214 Hlm.

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English

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0 7190 5749 3

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