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Stroh engages with the contested question of whether postcolonial theory can be fruitfully applied to Scottish literary expressions and cultural encounters by outlining the fundamental concepts and applying them to the most fundamental fault-line in Scottish history, that between the Lowlands and Highlands. In revisiting familiar texts, such as Martin Martin s surveys of the Western Isles and Walter Scott s<i>Waverley</i>, and introducing onesless familiar today, she demonstrates convincingly and comprehensibly that the hallmarks of colonial discourse Othering, civilizing missions, internalized stigmatization, and so on abound in the ways in which anglophone authors represented their Gaelic subjects. Michael Newton, author of <i>Warriors of the Word</i> and <i>Seanchaidh na Coille / Memory-Keeper of the Forest</i>

Stroh engages with the contested question of whether postcolonial theory can be fruitfully applied to Scottish literary expressions and cultural encounters by outlining the fundamental concepts and applying them to the most fundamental fault-line in Scottish history, that between the Lowlands and Highlands. In revisiting familiar texts, such as Martin Martin s surveys of the Western Isles and Walter Scott sWaverley, and introducing onesless familiar today, she demonstrates convincingly and comprehensibly that the hallmarks of colonial discourse Othering, civilizing missions, internalized stigmatization, and so on abound in the ways in which anglophone authors represented their Gaelic subjects. Michael Newton, author of Warriors of the Word and Seanchaidh na Coille / Memory-Keeper of the Forest

Stroh engages with the contested question of whether postcolonial theory can be fruitfully applied to Scottish literary expressions and cultural encounters by outlining the fundamental concepts and applying them to the most fundamental fault-line in Scottish history, that between the Lowlands and Highlands. In revisiting familiar texts, such as Martin Martin s surveys of the Western Isles and Walter Scott s Waverley, and introducing onesless familiar today, she demonstrates convincingly and comprehensibly that the hallmarks of colonial discourse Othering, civilizing missions, internalized stigmatization, and so on abound in the ways in which anglophone authors represented their Gaelic subjects. Michael Newton, author of Warriors of the Word and Seanchaidh na Coille / Memory-Keeper of the Forest

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Silke Stroh is an assistant professor of English, postcolonial, and media studies at the University of Muenster, Germany.

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