"Ah don't hate the English, ah hate the Scots": 35 Scotland contra England in Gray's 1982 Janine and Welsh's Trainspotting

Title: "Ah don't hate the English, ah hate the Scots": 35 Scotland contra England in Gray's 1982 Janine and Welsh's Trainspotting
Author: Gregorová, Markéta
Source document: Theory and Practice in English Studies. 2014, vol. 7, iss. 1, pp. [35]-42
Extent
[35]-42
  • ISSN
    1805-0859
Type: Article
Language
English
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Abstract(s)
This paper focuses on the negative Scottish self-perception of being an inferior nation justly deserving to be exploited by the English coloniser, and examines the manifestations of the internalised parochial status in two novels by two iconoclastic Scotsmen: Alasdair Gray's 1982 Janine (1984) and Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting (1993). The main characters in both novels seek to define their Scottish identity in opposition to the English and are bound to find their passive defensive stance ineffective.

References
[1] Craig, Cairns, 2002. The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the Na-tional Imagination. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

[2] Farred, Grant, 2004. "Wankerdom: Trainspotting as a Rejection of the Postcolonial?" The South Atlantic Quarterly 103 (1): 215–26. DOI 10.1215/00382876-103-1-215. |

[3] Gifford, Douglas, Sarah Dunnigan, and Alan MacGillivray, eds. 2002. Scottish Literature in English and Scots. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

[4] Gray, Alasdair, 1984. 1982 Janine. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

[5] MacLeod, Lewis, 2008. "Life among the Leith Plebs: Of Arseholes, Wankers and Tourists in Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting." Studies in the Literary Imagination 41 (1): 89–106. http://www.sli.gsu.edu/

[6] Welsh, Irvine, 1993. Trainspotting. London: Vintage.