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T1 Birds of a Feather?: A Postcolonial Reading of Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares
A1 Jackson, Ellen-Raïsa
A1 Maley, Willy
AB In this essay Irvine Welsh’s most disturbing novel, Marabou StorkNightmares (1995), is placed within a postcolonial framework. The novelcentres on the cultural and political context of the set of violent relationshipsthat form the experience of a young working-class Edinburghman. Welsh draws an analogy between the plight of Scotland’s urbanpoor and the victims of apartheid in South Africa, a comparison whoseappropriateness is challenged by critics who see in it an act of appropriation.But the real problem with Welsh’s comparative class analysisis its gendered politics, exemplified by the way in which the brutalgang rape at the centre of the novel is displaced onto its margins.
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