The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution : : Voice, Class, Nation / / Scott Hames.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Hames, Scott,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

Provides a cultural history and political critique of Scottish devolutionProvides the first critical history of Scottish devolutionOffers the first multidisciplinary study of (UK or Scottish) devolution: engaging extensively with the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists and cultural theoristsCombines close attention to political and electoral factors with cultural issues and developments Draws on political theory which illuminates devolution from outside its terms This book is about the role of writers and intellectuals in shaping constitutional change. Considering an unprecedented range of literary, political and archival materials, it explores how questions of ‘voice’, language and identity featured in debates leading to the new Scottish Parliament in 1999. Tracing both the ‘dream’ of cultural empowerment and the ‘grind’ of electoral strategy, it reconstructs the influence of magazines such as Scottish International, Radical Scotland, Cencrastus and Edinburgh Review, and sets the fiction of William McIlvanney, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, A. L. Kennedy and James Robertson within a radically altered picture of devolved Scotland.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Dream and the Grind -- 1. Chaps with Claymores to Grind: Literary and Political Nationalism 1967–79 -- 2. Machine Politics of British Devolution 1967–79 -- 3. The Scottish Dimension: Cultural and Constitutional Politics 1979–87 -- 4. Claims of Right: Self-Determination and Consensus 1987–92 -- 5. And the Land Lay Still: Curating Devolution with James Robertson -- 6. Language Nationalism and Vernacular Literary Space -- 7. Devolution and the Spectacle of Voice: Irvine Welsh, A. L. Kennedy, James Kelman -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index