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Scottish Writing After Devolution

Edges of the New

Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon Camille Manfredi Scott Hames

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Edinburgh University Press
21 May 2024
A 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 as Bashabi Fraser, Annie George, Tendai Huchu, Chin Li andRaman 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.
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Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   485g
ISBN:   9781474486187
ISBN 10:   1474486185
Pages:   344
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon is Professor of Scottish Literature at Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), France. She has published extensively on 20th and 21st-century fiction. Her previous publications include Women and Scotland: Literature, Culture, Politics (edited volume, Presses Universitaires de Franche Comté, 2020) and The Space of Fiction: Voices from Scotland in a post-devolution age, (Scottish Literature International, 2015). Camille Manfredi is Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Western Brittany (UBO), France. Her previous publications include Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds (edited volume, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Scott Hames is Senior Lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University of Stirling, and author of The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution (EUP, 2020), which draws extensively on post-1960s magazines and their debates. With Malcolm Petrie, he led the AHRC-funded Scottish Magazines Network on which this book is based. With Eleanor Bell, he co-founded the International Journal of Scottish Literature. He has edited or co-edited closely related volumes on Scottish Writing After Devolution (EUP, 2022), Unstated: Writers on Scottish Independence (Word Power, 2012) and The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman (EUP, 2010).

Reviews for Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New

The through-line of Scottish Writing After Devolution is the combined 'crisis' and 'interregnum' of this period. But these essays don't hide in indeterminacy. They show Scottish literature and Scottish literary criticism breaking in dozens of directions - none too comfortable with the nation-lodestar at which they've often been pointed. --Corey Gibson, University of Glasgow


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