The (re)writing of Scottish history in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Carolina de Pinho Santoro
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/6842
• topic: History; Fictional discourse; Scotland; Gibbon, Lewis Grassic, 1901-1935 Crítica e interpretação; Gibbon, Lewis Grassic, 1901-1935. Sunset song; Literatura e história; Ficção histórica; Análise do discurso narrativo; Escócia História Ficção; História; Discurso ficcional; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS

The present work aims at exploring possible dialogues between history and fiction in Sunset Song (1932), by the Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, analyzing the representation of the history of Scotland in the narrative. The novel portrays the early decades of the 20th century in the fictional village of Kinraddie, in the northeast of Scotland, dealing with the repercussions of World War One in this rural community. This study investigates how Gibbon's political position and his focus on the perspective of peasants affect his representation of the history of Scotland and its events and figures. As this is a traditionally voiceless group, the author's choice may contribute to filling in the blanks in historical accounts. Besides, this dissertation analyzes the presence of some elements of tradition in the novel, such as traditional songs, the Scots language and the Presbyterian religion, exploring how they are affected by the changes in the village following the war