Space of Fiction
Voices from Scotland in a Post-Devolution Age
Published on 5. May 2015
230 pages
978-1-908980-12-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Space of Fiction shows how contemporary Scottish novelists illuminate a post-national, cosmopolitan, multicultural and even globalised Scotland. Professor Pittin-Hedon explores their notions of space and place, and questions the impact of fiction on the nature of identity.
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Scottish Literature International
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title page
- Copyright
- Permissions
- Body
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Millennium Babes: Female Urban Voices after James Kelman and Irvine Welsh: Laura Hird, Anne Donovan, Zoë Strachan and Alison Miller
- 2. Female Crime Fiction: The Space of Transgression
- 3. James Robertson: The Contagion of History
- 4. Suhayl Saadi: The Third Space of Fiction
- 5. Ewan Morrison: The Non-Place of Fiction
- 6. The Confines of the Human: Shorter Fiction by Michel Faber, Des Dillon, Suhayl Saadi, Ewan Morrison and Scotland Into The New Era
- 7. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- Index
- Back Cover
