
The Space of Fiction
Voices from Scotland in a Post-Devolution Age
Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon(Author)
Scottish Literature International (Publisher)
Published on 5. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
230 pages
978-1-908980-09-0 (ISBN)
Description
Contemporary Scottish fiction is vigorous, vivid and diverse, eschewing the straitjackets of genre and resisting categorisation as either 'mainstream' or 'literary'. Meanwhile, Scotland itself refuses to conform to external notions of what it is, and what it can become. The literature of this post-devolution nation comes in a multitude of voices.
The Space of Fiction examines how Scottish writers have responded to, and been affected by, the nation's ongoing political discourse. Examining in detail the works of Des Dillon, Anne Donovan, Michel Faber, Laura Hird, Alison Miller, Ewan Morrison, James Robertson, Suhayl Saadi, Zoë Strachan and their contemporaries, The Space of Fiction traces their multifarious approaches to a post-national, cosmopolitan, multicultural and even globalised Scotland, and explores their notions of space, of place, and of the nature of identity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Glasgow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
304 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908980-09-0 (9781908980090)
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