An Act of Union?: conflicting depictions of Scotland and England in Ali Smith's Like / Birlesme Yasasi mi?: Ali Smith'in Like adli eserinde iskocya ve ingiltere'nin celisen tasvirleri
ISSN: 1300-574X
Año de publicación: 2008
Volumen: 17
Número: 1
Páginas: 103-112
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Interactions: Ege Journal of British and American Studies/Ege İngiliz ve Amerikan İncelemeleri Dergisi
Resumen
Postcolonial critic Homi Bhabha has defined "home" as a form of living that is "[...] more hybrid in the articulation of cultural differences and identifications than can be represented in any hierarchical or binary structuring of social antagonism (140). Such binary representation has traditionally affected the methods employed in England and Scotland to portray difference within the British State. Like is one of Ali Smith's most "Scottish" texts, a novel that was published in 1997, the same year that the Devolution of Scotland's Parliament was generally approved in the referendum that modified the Act of Union of 1707. The aim of this paper is to analyse its contribution to wider debates on the hybridisation of cultural traditions, using as a frame of reference the cultural context of Scotland at the end of the twentieth century.