TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith, Iain Crichton
AU  -  Alan Warner
TI  - After the Dance: Selected Stories of Iain Crichton Smith
SN  - 9781846972966
U1  - 823.92 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Birlinn General
KW  -  Short stories
KW  - Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
N2  - As a child Iain Crichton Smith was raised speaking Gaelic on the island of Lewis. At school in Stornoway he spoke English. Like many islanders before and since, his culture was divided: two languages, two histories entailing exile, a central theme of his stories in both tongues. His divided perspective delineated the tyranny of history and religion, of the cramped life of small communities; and gave him a compassionate eye for the struggle of women and men in a world defined by denials. Iain Crichton Smith:Selected Stories proves that big themes  -  love, history, power, submission, death  -  can be addressed without the foil of irony and acquire resonance when given a local habitation and a voice that risks pure, humane, impassioned speech
ER  -