The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation Contributor(s): Hames, Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474418139 ISBN-13: 9781474418133 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Politics - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - 21st Century |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.22 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Provides a cultural history and political critique of Scottish devolution
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.
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