Resistance to Accommodation: Postcolonial Readings of the Highland Clearances in Iain Crichton Smith's Consider the Lilies.
This article re-examines Iain Crichton Smith's Consider the Lilies (1968) through the lens of postcolonial theory, situating the novel within historical debates on the Highland Clearances and their representation in Scottish literature. While earlier criticism has often treated the Clearances in pre...
| Publicado en: | Scottish Literary Review Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 1 - 22 |
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