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A provisional re-mapping of Scotland's post-devolution literary culture, these fifteen essays explore how literature, theatre and visual art have both shaped and reflected the 'new Scotland' promised by parliamentary devolution. Chapters explore leading figures such as Alasdair Gray, David Greig, Kathleen Jamie and Jackie Kay, while also paying particular attention to women's writing by Kate Atkinson, A. L. Kennedy, Denise Mina, Ali Smith, Louise Welsh, and writers of colour such as Bashabi Fraser, Annie George, Tendai Huchu, Chin Li and Raman Mundair. Tracing continuities with 1990s debates alongside 'edges of the new' visible since Indyref 2014, these critics offer an in-depth study of Scotland's vibrant literary production in the period of devolution, viewed both within and beyond the frame of national representation.
Contents
AcknowledgementsList of illustrations
Introduction - Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Camille Manfredi, Scott Hames
1. 'Temporal deconstructions: narrating the ruins of time' - Glenda Norquay2. '"They Peer at my Dark Land": the ethics of storytelling in twenty-first Scottish Women's writing' - Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon3.'"Connected to Time": Ali Smith's Anachronistic Scottish Cosmopolitanism' - Fiona McCulloch4. 'Democracy and the Indyref novel' - Scott Hames 5. 'Shifting grounds: writers of colour in 21st-century Scottish literature' - Silke Stroh 6. 'Mapping Escape: Geography and Genre' - Timothy Baker7. '"Whom do you belong to, loch?" Ownership, Belonging and Transience in the Writings of Kathleen Jamie' - Amy Player8. 'Misty Islands and Hidden Bridges' - Kevin MacNeil9. 'The Scots Language is a Science Fiction Project' - Harry Josephine Giles10. Convivial Correctives to Metrovincial Prejudice: Kevin MacNeil's The Stornoway Way and Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag - Maggie Scott 11. 'Scottish Audio- and Film-Poetry: Writing, Sounding, Imaging 21st-Century Scotland' - Camille Manfredi 12. 'Post-National Polyphonies: Communities in Absentia on the Contemporary Scottish Stage' - Jeanne Schaaf13. 'Where Words and Images Collide: Will Maclean's Intertextual Collaborations' - Lindsay and Donald Blair 14. 'Erasure and Reinstatement: Gray the Artist, Across Space and Form' - Rodge Glass15. 'Transforming cultural memory: the shifting boundaries of post-devolutionary Scottish literature' - Carla Sassi
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