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T1 Return of the Goddess: Contemporary Music and Celtic Mythology in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar
A1 LeBlanc, John
AB Scot Alan Warner’s first novel, Morvern Callar, brings together, ina postmodern fashion, ancient Celtic and contemporary ‘New Age’worldviews. The novel focuses on the depressed reality of Scottish youthand culture as the title character, imprisoned by a moribund patriarchy,adopts her suicide boyfriend’s identity as a means of reasserting bothher own and Scotland’s sovereignty. Crucial to this reassertion isMorvern’s intuitive adoption of the character of the queens and druidsof Celtic mythology, but also significant is her fondness for contemporarymusic’s postmodern aesthetic of dismemberment that, paradoxically,engenders a womb-like watery space similar to that of the developingglobal communications network.“Look all around. The male god is dysfunctional. The goddess iscoming back.”(Tomson Highway)
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