The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature

Berthold Schoene

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9780748623969
• eBook ISBN: 9780748630288
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This textbook makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism.In more than 40 essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume positions Scottish literature within the broadest possible cultural framework, from history, politics and economics to new creative technologies, ecology and the media.

Table of contents

• COPYRIGHT
• Contents
• Introduction Post-devolution Scottish Writing
• Part I Contexts
• Chapter 1 Going Cosmopolitan: Reconstituting ‘Scottishness’ in Post-devolution Criticism
• Chapter 2 Voyages of Intent: Literature and Cultural Politics in Post-devolution Scotland
• Chapter 3 In Tom Paine’s Kitchen: Days of Rage and Fire
• Chapter 4 The Public Image: Scottish Literature in the Media
• Chapter 5 Literature, Theory, Politics: Devolution as Iteration
• Chapter 6 Is that a Scot or am Ah Wrang?
• Part II Genres
• Chapter 7 The ‘New Weegies’: The Glasgow Novel in the Twenty-first Century
• Chapter 8 Devolution and Drama: Imagining the Possible
• Chapter 9 Twenty-one Collections for the
• Chapter 10 Shifting Boundaries: Scottish Gaelic Literature after Devolution
• Chapter 11 Pedlars of their Nation’s Past: Douglas Galbraith, James Robertson and the New Historical Novel
• Chapter 12 Scottish Television Drama and Parochial Representation
• Chapter 13 Scotland’s New House: Domesticity and Domicile in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Poetry
• Chapter 14 Redevelopment Fiction: Architecture, Town-planning and ‘Unhomeliness’
• Chapter 15 Concepts of Corruption: Crime Fiction and the Scottish ‘State’
• Chapter 16 A Key to the Future: Hybridity in Contemporary Children’s Fiction
• Chapter 17 Gaelic Prose Fiction in English
• Part III Authors
• Chapter 18 Towards a Scottish Theatrocracy: Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead
• Chapter 19 Alasdair Gray and Post-millennial Writing
• Chapter 20 James Kelman and the Deterritorialisation of Power
• Chapter 21 Harnessing Plurality: Andrew Greig and Modernism
• Chapter 22 Radical Hospitality: Christopher Whyte and Cosmopolitanism
• Chapter 23 Iain (M.) Banks: Utopia, Nationalism and the Posthuman
• Chapter 24 Burying the Man that was: Janice Galloway and Gender Disorientation
• Chapter 25 In/outside Scotland: Race and Citizenship in the Work of Jackie Kay
• Chapter 26 Irvine Welsh: Parochialism, Pornography and Globalisation
• Chapter 27 Clearing Space: Kathleen Jamie and Ecology
• Chapter 28 Don Paterson and Poetic Autonomy
• Chapter 29 Alan Warner, Post-feminism and the Emasculated Nation
• Chapter 30 A. L. Kennedy’s Dysphoric Fictions
• Chapter 31 Between Camps: Masculinity, Race and Nation in Post-devolution Scotland
• Chapter 32 Crossing the Borderline: Post-devolution Scottish Lesbian and Gay Writing
• Chapter 33 Subaltern Scotland: Devolution and Postcoloniality
• Chapter 34 Mark Renton’s Bairns: Identity and Language in the Post-Trainspotting Novel
• Chapter 35 Cultural Devolutions: Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Return of the Postmodern
• Chapter 36 Alternative Sensibilities: Devolutionary Comedy and Scottish Camp
• Chapter 37 Against Realism: Contemporary Scottish Literature and the Supernatural
• Chapter 38 A Double Realm: Scottish Literary Translation in the Twenty-first Century
• Chapter 39 Scots Abroad: The International Reception of Scottish Literature
• Chapter 40 A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels
• Chapter 41 Cinema and the Economics of Representation: Public Funding of Film in Scotland
• Chapter 42 Twenty-first-century Storytelling: Context, Performance, Renaissance
• Notes on Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index