What is it about?
Using Michael Hechter's theory of internal colonialism, the article analyses texts set in or related to Cornwall - Ritual, Straw Dogs, The Wicker Man, The Siege of Trencher's Farm - to see how Celts were portrayed as dangerous in 1960s and 1970s fiction.
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Why is it important?
Challenges stereotypes of the Celt and Anglo-Saxon; looks at several little-known texts alongside canonical ones; contributes to modern area studies, British Studies, Celtic studies, Cornish Studies
Perspectives
The persistence of stereotypes from Caesar's time to the present is extraordinary! But also the article has a surprising "twist" conclusion...
Marion Gibson
University of Exeter
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This page is a summary of: Wicker men andStraw dogs: internal colonialism in Celtic novels and films 1968–1978, National Identities, June 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2012.732052.
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