Scottish Writing After Devolution : : Edges of the New / / ed. by Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon.

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 Sco...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 13 B/W illustrations 13 black & white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 3 ‘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