Macdonald Daly Books

This book was the first to introduce Silviano Santiago, the renowned Brazilian novelist, theorist and critic, to an English-speaking audience. It surveys Santiago's theorisations of Brazilian modernism, (including his key concepts of 'in-betweenness' and 'hybridity'); examines his literary critical and fictional relations to postmodernism; and presents Santiago's voice in a unique five-way dialogue with some of his most celebrated readers.

Politics and the Scottish Language collects for the first time Macdonald Daly's many essays on literature and culture (with politics never far away).As well as the title essay, which uniquely maps choices in the literary usage of Scottish accent and dialect onto demonstrable political perspectives, it encompasses discussions of fiction by Elizabeth Gaskell, H. G. Wells, John Herdman, George Orwell, Anthony Burgess and Ellis Sharp. Daly's grounbdbreaking essay on Scottish poets of the First World War is also included. The work of literary critics and theorists such as Harold Bloom, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart and Fredric Jameson is critically scrutinised. The book closes with four signature essays addressing contemporary issues in which culture and politics collide, including Daly's singular analysis of the rôle of tabloid newspapers in the 1992 UK General Election.