The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature

Berthold Schoene

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2007

The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature

Berthold Schoene

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748630288

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About this book

The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature examines the ways in which the cultural and political role of Scottish writing has changed since the country's successful referendum on national self-rule in 1997. In doing so, it makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism.

Introducing over forty original essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume covers the entire spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of Scottish studies and heralds a new era in Scottish writing, literary criticism and cultural theory. It records and critically outlines prominent literary trends and developments, the specific political circumstances and aesthetic agendas that propel them, as well as literature's capacity for envisioning new and alternative futures. Issues under discussion include class, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalisation, the New Europe and cosmopolitan citizenship, postcoloniality, as well as questions of multiculturalism, ethnicity and race.

Written by critics from around the world - and by several creative writers - the work of solidly established Scottish authors is discussed alongside that of relative newcomers who have entered the scene over the past ten years or currently emergent writers who are still in the process of getting noticed as part of a new literary avant-garde.

Key Features

Defines a new period in Scottish literary history: 'post-devolution Scottish literature'
Introduces over forty original essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics'
Positions literature within the broadest possible cultural framework, from history, politics and economics to new creative technologies, ecology and the media
Likely to become the 'standard' work of criticism appealing to students, teachers, researchers and critics as well as to a general readership interested in Scottish literary affairs

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction: Post-devolution Scottish writing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I: Contexts
Chapter 1. Going Cosmopolitan: Reconstituting ‘Scottishness’ in Post-devolution Criticism Berthold Schoene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Chapter 2. Voyages of Intent: Literature and Cultural Politics in Post-devolution Scotland Gavin Wallace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter 3. In Tom Paine’s Kitchen: Days of Rage and Fire Suhayl Saadi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Chapter 4. The Public Image: Scottish Literature in the Media Andrew Crumey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Chapter 5. Literature, Theory, Politics: Devolution as Iteration Michael Gardiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 6. Is that a Scot or am Ah Wrang? Zoë Strachan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
PART II: Genres
Chapter 7. The ‘New Weegies’: The Glasgow Novel in the Twenty-first Century Alan Bissett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter 8. Devolution and Drama: Imagining the Possible Adrienne Scullion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
Chapter 9. Twenty-one Collections for the Twenty-first Century Christopher Whyte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Chapter 10. Shifting Boundaries: Scottish Gaelic Literature after Devolution Máire Ní Annracháin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Chapter 11. Pedlars of their Nation’s Past: Douglas Galbraith, James Robertson and the New Historical Novel Mariadele Boccardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter 12. Scottish Television Drama and Parochial Representation Gordon Gibson and Sarah Neely Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Chapter 13. Scotland’s New House: Domesticity and Domicile in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Poetry Alice Entwistle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Chapter 14. Redevelopment Fiction: Architecture, Town-planning and ‘Unhomeliness’ Peter Clandfield and Christian Lloyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Chapter 15. Concepts of Corruption: Crime Fiction and the Scottish ‘State’ Gill Plain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Chapter 16. A Key to the Future: Hybridity in Contemporary Children’s Fiction Fiona McCulloch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Chapter 17. Gaelic Prose Fiction in English Michelle Macleod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
PART III: Authors
18. Towards a Scottish Theatrocracy: Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead Colin Nicholson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 19. Alasdair Gray and Post-millennial Writing Stephen Bernstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Chapter 20. James Kelman and the Deterritorialisation of Power Aaron Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Chapter 21. Harnessing Plurality: Andrew Greig and Modernism Simon Dentith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Chapter 22. Radical Hospitality: Christopher Whyte and Cosmopolitanism Fiona Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Chapter 23. Iain (M.) Banks: Utopia, Nationalism and the Posthuman Gavin Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Chapter 24. Burying the Man that was: Janice Galloway and Gender Disorientation Carole Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Chapter 25. In/outside Scotland: Race and Citizenship in the Work of Jackie Kay Matthew Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Chapter 26. Irvine Welsh: Parochialism, Pornography and Globalisation Robert Morace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Chapter 27. Clearing Space: Kathleen Jamie and Ecology Louisa Gairn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Chapter 28. Don Paterson and Poetic Autonomy Scott Hames Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Chapter 29. Alan Warner, Post-feminism and the Emasculated Nation Berthold Schoene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Chapter 30. A. L. Kennedy’s Dysphoric Fictions David Borthwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
PART IV: Topics
Chapter 31. Between Camps: Masculinity, Race and Nation in Post-devolution Scotland Alice Ferrebe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Chapter 32. Crossing the Borderline: Post-devolution Scottish Lesbian and Gay Writing Joanne Winning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Chapter 33. Subaltern Scotland: Devolution and Postcoloniality Stefanie Lehner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Chapter 34. Mark Renton’s Bairns: Identity and Language in the Post-Trainspotting Novel Kirstin Innes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Chapter 35. Cultural Devolutions: Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Return of the Postmodern Matthew McGuire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
Chapter 36. Alternative Sensibilities: Devolutionary Comedy and Scottish Camp Ian Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Chapter 37. Against Realism: Contemporary Scottish Literature and the Supernatural Kirsty Macdonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
Chapter 38. A Double Realm: Scottish Literary Translation in the Twenty-first Century John Corbett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	336
Chapter 39. Scots Abroad: The International Reception of Scottish Literature Katherine Ashley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Chapter 40. A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels Euan Hague and David Stenhouse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	354
Chapter 41. Cinema and the Economics of Representation: Public Funding of Film in Scotland Duncan Petrie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
Chapter 42. Twenty-first-century Storytelling: Context, Performance, Renaissance Valentina Bold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	380
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 432
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 11, 2007
ISBN: 9780748630288