SINGING SCOTTISH CULTURE IN LEWIS GRASSIC GIBBON’S SUNSET SONG

Carolina de Pinho Santoro Lopes

Resumo


Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel Sunset Song (1932) represents the early decades of the twentieth century in the fictional Scottish village of Kinraddie, portraying the strong impact of the First World War in this rural community. Traditional Scottish songs are central to characters’ daily lives and play an important role in shaping the group’s sense of identity. This situation changes with the coming of the war, with traditional Scottish songs giving way to foreign ones. Despite the decline in the relevance of these cultural elements for Kinraddie’s inhabitants, part of this tradition endures and gains new meaning in this transformed historical and social context.

 

Keywords: Scottish literature. Songs. Memory studies. Cultural Identity.

 


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DOI: 10.5935/1679-5520.20200022


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