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to discuss possible article: postnationalism in the atlantic archipelago

cultural identity and change in the Atlantic archipelago)? Drawing on Hugh MacDiarmid’s pioneering call for a canon based “on all the diverse cultural elements and the splendid variety of languages and dialects of the British Isles” and considering recent theorisations of connected ‘archipelagic identities’ (e.g. Pocock 1973, Kerrigan 2008), as opposed to Anglo-centric notions of Britishness sidelining, subsuming or erasing devolved minor/national/local identities, the present seminar proposes a revision of the paradigm for the study of ‘English literature’ as a constellation of social, political and cultural structures, globally connected and yet autonomously and dignifiedly local. We invite both theoretical and/or empirical contributions from a postcolonial, Irish, Scottish or Welsh studies perspective. "
 * what should it contain?
 * how should it be framed?
 * just postnationalism (Kearney et al), or archipelagic studies in general (many other approaches, e.g. cultural/identity: Across the margins:
 * what about the celtic fringe idea: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1350748032000140778#preview (anglo center, celtic fringe)
 * what about bi-country studies (e.g. http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundedResearch/CaseStudies/Pages/irelandwalesresearchnetwork.aspx or http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/research/celtic/projects/celtic_projects.htm, http://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/post-graduate.shtml (, or other celtic linkages)
 * or bi-national politics (e.g. Scotland-Northern Ireland http://www.scottishaffairs.org/backiss/pdfs/sa27/sa27_Walker.pdf; Scotland-Ireland (someone shoudl write an article on that)
 * other groupings (e.g. Irish sea http://www.overtheirishsea.org/index_files/Page333.htm)
 * identity studies?
 * other possible source: http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/COB/Publications/BelfastStudiesinLanguageCultureandPolitics/ (Edited papers from the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative conference in 2002, showing how ‘the Atlantic archipelago’ can be conceived under such central themes as governance, regionalism and identity, devolution and cultural policy, narratives, sport and sectarianism, film, the Great War, New British History and postcolonial theory. )
 * another source: The British Problem c.1534-1707 State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago "This pioneering book seeks to transcend the limitations of separate English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh histories by taking the archipelago made up of the islands of Britain and Ireland as a single unit of study. There has been little attempt hitherto to study the history of the 'Atlantic archipelago' as a coherent entity, even for the period during which there was a single ruler of both Great Britain and Ireland."
 * more on scotland/ireland
 * word choice: atlantic archipelago chosen explicitly to link with historical approach and similar naming used in other academic centers / journals (e.g. archipelago journal)
 * "Literary canon(s) for the Atlantic Archipelago: towards a de-centring of English Studies
 * John Kerrigan, Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 (which according to this, avoids the core-periphery approach: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb162/is_2_39/ai_n47568867; using Isle of Man example)


 * comments welcome...