"What countrey's this? and whither are we gone?": papers presented at the twelfth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation (Aberdeen University, 30th July - 2nd August 2008)

Readers of this book will find explorations of literature from all five continents.

It looks at region and nation within literature, literary representations of people and places, literature of diaspora and exile, the use of language in literary texts and artistic interactions between cultures.