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Four estranged friends reunite for a motorcycle trip up the Isle of
Skye, in the hope of coming to terms with how their lives have
splintered since a transformative ride in Northern India fourteen
years earlier. In their fumbling attempts to spiritually reconnect,
expectant father Raj, recently widowed Vidushei, always youthful
Liam and perpetually fragile Bobby test the limits of their
friendship around campfires, on twisty roads, in unexpected
Ayahuasca ceremonies, and against discussions of belonging, race,
and identity. A novel about youth, the spectres of friendship, and
colonial legacies in a small but fiercely proud nation, New Skin
for the Old Ceremony spans India and Skye, seeing past ghosts
exorcised in order to face the present.
This book provides a critical study of the relationship between
Robert Burns and the United States of America, c.1786-1866. Though
Burns is commonly referred to as Scotland's "National Poet", his
works were frequently reprinted in New York and Philadelphia; his
verse mimicked by an emerging canon of American poets; and his
songs appropriated by both abolitionists and Confederate soldiers
during the Civil War era. Adopting a transnational, Atlantic
Studies perspective that shifts emphasis from Burns as national
poet to transnational icon, this book charts the reception,
dissemination and cultural memory of Burns and his works in the
United States up to 1866.
This book provides a critical study of the relationship between
Robert Burns and the United States of America, c.1786-1866. Though
Burns is commonly referred to as Scotland's "National Poet", his
works were frequently reprinted in New York and Philadelphia; his
verse mimicked by an emerging canon of American poets; and his
songs appropriated by both abolitionists and Confederate soldiers
during the Civil War era. Adopting a transnational, Atlantic
Studies perspective that shifts emphasis from Burns as national
poet to transnational icon, this book charts the reception,
dissemination and cultural memory of Burns and his works in the
United States up to 1866.
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