Scottish Writing after Devolution: Edges of the New

Scottish Writing after Devolution

Edges of the New

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Edited by Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Université d'Aix-Marseille, Camille Manfredi, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Scott Hames, University of Stirling

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: November 2024
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781474486194

Subjects:: Creative Writing, Film, Media, Mass Communication

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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 exclusions.

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Edges of the New

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements
pp viii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-16

1 - Temporal Deconstructions: Narrating the Ruins of Time
pp 17-34

2 - ‘They peer at my dark land’: The Ethics of Storytelling in Twenty-First-Century Scottish Women’s Writing
pp 35-56

3 - ‘Connected to time’: Ali Smith’s Anachronistic ScottishCosmopolitanism
pp 57-80

4 - Democracy and the Indyref Novel
pp 81-103

5 - Shifting Grounds: Writers of Colour in Twenty-First- Century Scottish Literature
pp 104-122

6 - Mapping Escape: Geography and Genre
pp 123-140

7 - ‘Whom do you belong to, loch?’ Ownership, Belonging and Transience in the Writings of Kathleen Jamie
pp 141-162

8 - Misty Islands and Hidden Bridges
pp 163-175

9 - The Scots Language is a Science Fiction Project
pp 176-197

10 - Convivial Correctives to Metrovincial Prejudice: Kevin MacNeil’s The Stornoway Way and Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag
pp 198-223

11 - Scottish Audio- and Film-Poetry: Writing, Sounding, Imaging Twenty-First-Century Scotland
pp 224-239

12 - Post-National Polyphonies: Communities in absentia on the Contemporary Scottish Stage
pp 240-256

13 - Where Words and Images Collide: Will Maclean’s Intertextual Collaborations
pp 257-281

14 - Erasure and Reinstatement: Gray the Artist, Across Space and Form
pp 282-304

15 - Transforming Cultural Memory: The Shifting Boundaries of Post-Devolutionary Scottish Literature
pp 305-324

Notes on Contributors
pp 325-328

Index
pp 329-336

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