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Subaltern Ethics in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Literature : Tracing Counter-Histories

This book develops a complex theoretical framework for comparative readings of Irish, Northern Irish, and Scottish literature and thereby breaks new ground in investigations of the overlapping of Irish and Scottish studies. It brings together for the first time the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas with the category of the ‘subaltern’ to explore how a considerable body of contemporary fictions interacts with the processes of social, political and economic restructuring of the three state formations in Ireland and Scotland, concerning the phenomenon of the Celtic Tiger in the Irish Republic, devolution in Scotland, and the peace process in Northern Ireland.