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Remaps the state of Scottish writing in the contemporary moment, embracing its uncertainty and the need to reconsider the field’s founding assumptions and exclusionsAttends to the dynamic interplay between contemporary Scottish literature, politics and the artsCaptures the range and diversity of Scottish writing since 1999Revisits the critical paradigms of Scottish cultural studies in light of ongoing political developmentsPromotes a wide range of theoretical perspectives (from ecocriticism to queer theory and linguistics), and dialogue between scholars and creative writers (Harry Josephine Giles, Rodge Glass, Kevin MacNeil)Adds an internationalised perspective to the expanding field of Scottish literary studiesA provisional re-mapping of Scotland’s post-devolution literary culture, these fifteen essays explore how literature, theatre and visual art have both shaped and reflected the “new Scotland” promised by parliamentary devolution. Chapters explore leading figures such as Alasdair Gray, David Greig, Kathleen Jamie and Jackie Kay, while also paying particular attention to women’s writing by Kate Atkinson, A.L. Kennedy, Denise Mina, Ali Smith, Louise Welsh, and writers of colour such Bashabi Fraser, Annie George, Tendai Huchu, Chin Li and Raman Mundair. Tracing continuities with 1990s debates alongside “edges of the new” visible since Indyref 2014, these critics offer an in-depth study of Scotland’s vibrant literary production in the period of devolution, viewed both within and beyond the frame of national representation Frontmatter, Contents, List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Camille Manfredi and Scott Hames, 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, ‘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
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