After the Dance
Iain Crichton Smith
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
As a child Iain Crichton Smith was raised speaking Gaelic on the island of Lewis. At school in Stornoway he spoke English. Like many islanders before and since, his culture was divided: two languages and two histories entailing exile. His divided perspective delineated the tyranny of history and religion, of the cramped life of small communities, and gave him a compassionate eye for the struggle of women and men in a world defined by denials. After the Dance proves that big themes – love, history, power, submission, death – can be addressed without the foil of irony and acquire resonance when given a local habitation and a voice that risks pure, humane, impassioned speech. This updated edition includes the story 'Home'
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Sweets to the Sweet, The Play, Do You Believe in Ghosts?, The Button, The Painter, Murdo and Calvin, Rose Street Poets, After the Dance, The Long Happy Life of Murdina the Maid, In the Silence, Murdo Leaves the Bank, The Telegram, Murdo’s Xmas Letter, Norman MacCaig, Murdo’s Application for a Bursary, The Hermit, The Crater, Murdo & the Mod, The Red Door, The Wedding, The Exiles, The Maze, The Old Woman and the Rat, Iain Crichton Smith, A Day in the Life of, Sorley Maclean, The Mess of Pottage, Home, In Church, Hugh MacDiarmid, Mr Heine, A September Day, Mother and Son, The Prophecy, An American Sky, The House, The Bridge