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Nation and Nationalism, Part 1 (Paperback)
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Nation and Nationalism, Part 1 (Paperback)
Series: Neil Gunn Circle, 1
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Loot Price R255
Discovery Miles 2 550
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Neil M. Gunn (1891 - 1973) has been widely recognized as the most
important novelist of the twentieth-century Scottish Literary
Renaissance. Most of his novels are still in print and they
continue to find in each generation an enthusiastic popular and
academic readership. His novels have been adopted for cinema,
television and radio and they have had an important influence on
contemporary Scottish writers such as James Robertson. What is
perhaps less well known is Gunn's role in the development of
contemporary Scottish nationalism as both activist and thinker. Not
that he would have agreed to such a division as he believed in a
seamless commitment to the goal of a fairer and more equitable
Scotland through the delivery of election leaflets and the setting
out of the intellectual case for independence. Gunn was
instrumental in the foundation of the contemporary SNP, through the
bringing together of disparate groups in favour of independence,
and continued to play a part in its development and in the
development of the Highlands and Islands throughout his life.This
collection of essays on Gunn's involvement in politics and his
ideas about nation and nationalism represents a guide to both for
the reader of his novels and those interested in contemporary
political developments in Scotland. Alistair McCleery draws
parallels between the situation in 1931, using Gunn's account of it
in his diary, and the present day. Michael Russell, Cabinet
Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, examines Gunn's debt
to Ireland, the role of the writer in nationalism, and the need for
Scottish literature within the Scottish curriculum. Ewen Cameron,
now Professor of History at Edinburgh University, considers the
gaps in his own school education in the Highlands and how he was
led to fill them through an enthusiastic teacher leading him to
Gunn's novels and thereby to the history and culture of his own
locality. Dairmid Gunn draws on his intimate knowledge of his uncle
to provide an account of his home in Inverness as a centre for
lively company and stimulating discussion of art and politics. This
picture is reinforced in the late Neil MacCormick's memoir of Gunn
and the influence he had on John MacCormick, his father.The
collection also contains two of Gunn's essays on writing and
politics as well as a complete bibliography of his political
writings by Christopher Stokoe.The collection as a whole is timely
in its contribution to understanding of Scottish nationalism just
under a year before the Scottish people come to decide, as Gunn
hoped they would have the opportunity to, on Scotland's future as
an independent state or not.
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