Can the peasants speak? Revisiting scotting history in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset song

Autores/as

  • Carolina de Pinho Santoro Lopes Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Palabras clave:

History, fictional discourse, Scotland

Resumen

In his novel Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon gives voice to the perspective of peasants from the northeast of Scotland, rewriting events of Scottish history in a new light. This paper aims at analyzing the representation of the history of Scotland in the narrative, as well as exploring the influence of the author’s political position and viewpoint on his work. A sympathizer of left-wing ideologies, Gibbon strongly criticizes the elite and praises historical figures whom he considers popular leaders.

Biografía del autor/a

Carolina de Pinho Santoro Lopes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Mestre em Literaturas de Língua Inglesa (UERJ)

Publicado

2016-06-15

Cómo citar

Lopes, C. de P. S. (2016). Can the peasants speak? Revisiting scotting history in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset song. Palimpsesto - Revista Do Programa De Pós-Graduação Em Letras Da UERJ, 15(22), 34–50. Recuperado a partir de https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/palimpsesto/article/view/35044