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T1 Dissecting Glasgow: Alasdair Gray's Poor Things
A1 Díaz Martínez, Mario
AB Poor Things is, to a large extent, concerned with the representationof the city of Glasgow during its year as European City of Culture. Thenovel not only shows that there is more to the Victorian era than isevoked by the conservative propaganda of those years, but also suggeststhat there is more to Glaswegian culture than that which was marketedduring 1990. In this paper I will analyse the three main narrativesthat converge in Poor Things, each written from a distinct perspectiveand at different points in history, and the links they create between VictorianGlasgow and contemporary Glasgow. We will study how Grayuses multiple narrative perspectives and historical frames of referenceto recontextualise contemporary political and ideological concernswithin historical discourses, re-historicising the debate about contemporaryGlasgow and making historiographic reconstruction a centralfeature of the whole novel. The paper will also explore how the authoruses the history and the landscape of Glasgow to chart a new anatomyof the city, fashioning these images and ideals into a new mythographyof Glasgow, against which the contemporary city can be measured.
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