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- The Space of Fiction: Voices From Scotland in a Post-Devolution Age
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
summary
Contemporary Scottish fiction is vigorous, vivid and diverse, eschewing the straitjackets of genre and resisting categorisation as either ‘mainstream’ or ‘literary’. Meanwhile, Scotland itself refuses to conform to external notions of what it is, and what it can become. The literature of this post-devolution nation comes in a multitude of voices. The Space of Fiction investigates how Scottish writers have responded to, and been affected by, the nation’s ongoing political discourse. Examining in detail the works of Des Dillon, Anne Donovan, Michel Faber, Laura Hird, Alison Miller, Ewan Morrison, James Robertson, Suhayl Saadi, Zoë Strachan and their contemporaries, The Space of Fiction traces their multifarious approaches to a post-national, cosmopolitan, multicultural and even globalised Scotland, and explores their notions of space, of place, and of the impact of fiction on the nature of identity.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- p. v
- Introduction
- pp. vii-xxii
- 5. Ewan Morrison: The Non-Place of Fiction
- pp. 117-149
- 7. Conclusion
- pp. 182-190
- Bibliography
- pp. 191-202
- Abbreviations
- p. 203
Additional Information
ISBN
9781908980120
Related ISBN(s)
9781908980090
MARC Record
OCLC
909456906
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2015-05-19
Language
English
Open Access
No