Scottish Writing After Devolution
Edges of the New
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2022
344 pages
978-1-4744-8620-0 (ISBN)
Description
Remaps the state of Scottish writing in the contemporary moment, embracing its uncertainty and the need to reconsider the field's founding assumptions and exclusions.
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Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon | Camille Manfredi | Scott Hames
Scottish Writing After Devolution
Edges of the New
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03/2022
Edinburgh University Press
€141.50
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Content
- Intro
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Temporal Deconstructions: Narrating the Ruins of Time
- 2. 'They peer at my dark land': The Ethics of Storytelling in Twenty-First-Century Scottish Women's Writing
- 3. 'Connected to time': Ali Smith's Anachronistic Scottish Cosmopolitanism
- 4. Democracy and the Indyref Novel
- 5. Shifting Grounds: Writers of Colour in Twenty-First-Century Scottish Literature
- 6. Mapping Escape: Geography and Genre
- 7. 'Whom do you belong to, loch?' Ownership, Belonging and Transience in the Writings of Kathleen Jamie
- 8. Misty Islands and Hidden Bridges
- 9. The Scots Language is a Science Fiction Project
- 10. Convivial Correctives to Metrovincial Prejudice: Kevin MacNeil's The Stornoway Way and Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag
- 11. Scottish Audio- and Film-Poetry: Writing, Sounding, Imaging Twenty-First-Century Scotland
- 12. Post-National Polyphonies: Communities in absentia on the Contemporary Scottish Stage
- 13. Where Words and Images Collide: Will Maclean's Intertextual Collaborations
- 14. Erasure and Reinstatement: Gray the Artist, Across Space and Form
- 15. Transforming Cultural Memory: The Shifting Boundaries of Post-Devolutionary Scottish Literature
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
