Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution

Voice, Class, Nation

AvScott Hames

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Provides a cultural history and political critique of Scottish devolutionProvides the first critical history of Scottish devolutionOffers the first multidisciplinary study of (UK or Scottish) devolution: engaging extensively with the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists and cultural theoristsCombines close attention to political and electoral factors with cultural issues and developments Draws on political theory which illuminates devolution from outside its terms 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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Utgivningsdatum:2019-11-19
Mått:138 x 216 x 26 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474418133

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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).

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A major contribution to our understanding of Scottish cultural politics. In a rich and perceptive study, Scott Hames examines the disjunction between the literary Dream and the political Grind over the past half century.

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Preface Introduction: The Dream and the Grind 1. Chaps with Claymores to Grind: Literary and Political Nationalism 1967-792. Machine Politics of British Devolution 1967-793. The Scottish Dimension: Cultural and Constitutional Politics 1979-19874. Claims of Right: Self-Determination and Consensus 1987-19925. And the Land Lay Still: Curating Devolution with James Robertson 6. Language Nationalism and Vernacular Literary Space7. Devolution and the Spectacle of Voice: Irvine Welsh, A.L. Kennedy, James KelmanConclusionBibliographyIndex