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Douglas Stuart on 'Shuggie Bain'

Louisiana Literature

CHAPTER

The Dilemma of Shoggi

"It is about otherness on many levels, because also there's this detail now you mentioned, religion," she says. Glasgow has a very proud history of Irish immigration, but it often brought some troubles with it,. And here are the Catholics coming. The Catholics were often ghettoized, or they stayed in certain parts of the city. It's not the same violence as Northern Ireland experience, because it wasn't about identity. But it often went down to a recreational level about what football team did you support? How do young men identify? How do they form into gangs?"

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