The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature
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The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature

  1. 432 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

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