The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature

Edited by Berthold Schoene

Edinburgh University Press Contents

Introduction: Post-devolution Scottish writing 1

PART I: Contexts 1 Going Cosmopolitan: Reconstituting 'Scottishness' in Post-devolution Criticism 7 Berthold Schoene 2 Voyages of Intent: Literature and Cultural Politics in Post-devolution Scotland .^ 17 Gavin Wallace 3 In Tom Paine's Kitchen: Days of Rage and Fire 28 Suhayl Saadi 4 The Public Image: Scottish Literature in the Media 34 Andrew Crumey 5 Literature, Theory, Politics: Devolution as Iteration 43 Michael Gardiner 6 Is that a Scot or am Ah Wrang? 51 Zoe Strachan

PART 11: Genres 7 The 'New Weegies': The Glasgow Novel in the Twenty-first Century 59 Alan Bissett 8 Devolution and Drama: Imagining the Possible 68 Adrienne Scullion 9 Twenty-one Collections for the Twenty-first Century 78 Christopher Whyte 10 Shifting Boundaries: Scottish Gaelic Literature after Devolution 88 Mdire Ni Annrachdin 11 Pedlars of their Nation's Past: Douglas Galbraith, James Robertson and the New Historical Novel 97 Mariadele Boccardi 12 Scottish Television Drama and Parochial Representation 106 Gordon Gibson and Sarah Neely vi Contents

13 Scotland's New House: Domesticity and Domicile in Contemporary Scottish Women's Poetry 114 Alice Entwistle 14 Redevelopment Fiction: Architecture, Town-planning and 'Unhomeliness' 124 Peter Clandfield and Christian Lloyd 15 Concepts of Corruption: Crime Fiction and the Scottish 'State' 132 Gill Plain 16 A Key to the Future: Hybridity in Contemporary Children's Fiction 141 Fiona McCulloch 17 Gaelic Prose Fiction in English 149 Michelle Macleod

PART 111: Authors 18 Towards a Scottish Theatrocracy: Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead 159 Colin Nicholson 19 Alasdair Gray and Post-millennial Writing 167 Stephen Bernstein 20 James Kelman and the Deterritorialisation of Power 175 Aaron Kelly 21 Harnessing Plurality: Andrew Greig and Modernism 184 Simon Dentith 22 Radical Hospitality: Christopher Whyte and Cosmopolitanism 194 Fiona Wilson 23 Iain (M.) Banks: Utopia, Nationalism and the Posthuman 202 Gavin Miller 24 Burying the Man that was: Janice Galloway and Gender Disorientation 210 Carole Jones 25 In/outside Scotland: Race and Citizenship in the Work of Jackie Kay 219 Matthew Brown 26 Irvine Welsh: Parochialism, Pornography and Globalisation 227 Robert Morace 27 Clearing Space: Kathleen Jamie and Ecology 236 Louisa Gaim 28 Don Paterson and Poetic Autonomy 245 Scott Hames 29 Alan Warner, Post-feminism and the Emasculated Nation 255 Berthold Schoene 30 A. L. Kennedy's Dysphoric Fictions 264 David Borthwick Contents ' . vii

PART IV: Topics 31 Between Camps: Masculinity, Race and Nation in Post-devolution Scotland 275 Alice Ferrebe 32 Crossing the Borderline: Post-devolution Scottish Lesbian and Gay Writing 283 Joanne Winning 33 Subaltern Scotland: Devolution and Postcoloniality 292 Stefanie Lehner 34 Mark Renton's Bairns: Identity and Language in the Post-Trainspotting Novel 301 Kirstin Innes 35 Cultural Devolutions: Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Return of the Postmodern 310 Matthew McGuire 36 Alternative Sensibilities: Devolutionary Comedy and Scottish Camp 319 Ian Brown 37 Against Realism: Contemporary Scottish Literature and the Supernatural 328 Kir sty Macdonald 38 A Double Realm: Scottish Literary Translation in the Twenty-first Century 336 John Corbett 39 Scots Abroad: The International Reception of Scottish Literature 345 Katherine Ashley 40 A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels 354 Euan Hague and David Stenhouse 41 Cinema and the Economics of Representation: Public Funding of Film in Scotland 362 Duncan Petrie 42 Twenty-first-century Storytelling: Context, Performance, Renaissance 371 Valenuna Bold Notes on Contributors 380 Bibliography 385 Index 417