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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Post-devolution Scottish writing -- PART I: Contexts -- Chapter 1. Going Cosmopolitan: Reconstituting 'Scottishness' in Post-devolution Criticism -- Chapter 2. Voyages of Intent: Literature and Cultural Politics in Post-devolution Scotland -- Chapter 3. In Tom Paine's Kitchen: Days of Rage and Fire -- Chapter 4. The Public Image: Scottish Literature in the Media -- Chapter 5. Literature, Theory, Politics: Devolution as Iteration -- Chapter 6. Is that a Scot or am Ah Wrang? -- PART II: Genres -- Chapter 7. The 'New Weegies': The Glasgow Novel in the Twenty-first Century -- Chapter 8. Devolution and Drama: Imagining the Possible -- Chapter 9. Twenty-one Collections for the Twenty-first Century -- Chapter 10. Shifting Boundaries: Scottish Gaelic Literature after Devolution -- Chapter 11. Pedlars of their Nation's Past: Douglas Galbraith, James Robertson and the New Historical Novel -- Chapter 12. Scottish Television Drama and Parochial Representation -- Chapter 13. Scotland's New House: Domesticity and Domicile in Contemporary Scottish Women's Poetry -- Chapter 14. Redevelopment Fiction: Architecture, Town-planning and 'Unhomeliness' -- Chapter 15. Concepts of Corruption: Crime Fiction and the Scottish 'State' -- Chapter 16. A Key to the Future: Hybridity in Contemporary Children's Fiction -- Chapter 17. Gaelic Prose Fiction in English -- PART III: Authors -- 18. Towards a Scottish Theatrocracy: Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead -- Chapter 19. Alasdair Gray and Post-millennial Writing -- Chapter 20. James Kelman and the Deterritorialisation of Power -- Chapter 21. Harnessing Plurality: Andrew Greig and Modernism -- Chapter 22. Radical Hospitality: Christopher Whyte and Cosmopolitanism -- Chapter 23. Iain (M.) Banks: Utopia, Nationalism and the Posthuman -- Chapter 24. Burying the Man that was: Janice Galloway and Gender Disorientation -- Chapter 25. In/outside Scotland: Race and Citizenship in the Work of Jackie Kay -- Chapter 26. Irvine Welsh: Parochialism, Pornography and Globalisation -- Chapter 27. Clearing Space: Kathleen Jamie and Ecology -- Chapter 28. Don Paterson and Poetic Autonomy -- Chapter 29. Alan Warner, Post-feminism and the Emasculated Nation -- Chapter 30. A. L. Kennedy's Dysphoric Fictions -- PART IV: Topics -- Chapter 31. Between Camps: Masculinity, Race and Nation in Post-devolution Scotland -- Chapter 32. Crossing the Borderline: Post-devolution Scottish Lesbian and Gay Writing -- Chapter 33. Subaltern Scotland: Devolution and Postcoloniality -- Chapter 34. Mark Renton's Bairns: Identity and Language in the Post-Trainspotting Novel -- Chapter 35. Cultural Devolutions: Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Return of the Postmodern -- Chapter 36. Alternative Sensibilities: Devolutionary Comedy and Scottish Camp -- Chapter 37. Against Realism: Contemporary Scottish Literature and the Supernatural -- Chapter 38. A Double Realm: Scottish Literary Translation in the Twenty-first Century -- Chapter 39. Scots Abroad: The International Reception of Scottish Literature -- Chapter 40. A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels -- Chapter 41. Cinema and the Economics of Representation: Public Funding of Film in Scotland -- Chapter 42. Twenty-first-century Storytelling: Context, Performance, Renaissance -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index 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 FeaturesDefines 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 mediaLikely 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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