What If I Sang Flower of Scotland?

By Catriona Strang

What if I Sang Flower of Scotland? confronts the transnational histories of Scottish culture from a perspective grounded in Vancouver, asking what it means to be a settler on stolen land who has only secondary connections to a distant "homeland." Weaving together research into masculine-coded rugby, Scottish history, and Scottish women's material culture, Strang tosses us into a series of battlegrounds, wars over territory and workplace, warping and wefting across a constant, multisided struggle across field and pitch to ask what stories her ancestors brought with them, and how they're still at play. Structured like a cross between a rugby match and a weaving, What if I Sang Flower of Scotland? plunges into the scrum and the ruck of what it means to take up the banner but not sing the song of a fraught nationalism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772017493
• ISBN13: 9781772017496
• Release Date: April 2027
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 8.5"