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CONTENTS; Introduction; PART I: Contexts; (1) Going cosmopolitan: reconstituting Scottishness in post-devolution criticism; (Berthold Schoene); (2) Voyages of intent: literature and cultural politics in post-devolution; Scotland (Gavin Wallace); (3) In Tom Paine's kitchen: days of rage and fire; (Suhayl Saadi); (4) The public image: Scottish literature in the media; (Andrew Crumey); (5) Literature, theory, politics: devolution as iteration; (Michael Gardiner); (6) Is that a Scot or am Ah wrang?; (Zoe Strachan); PART II: Genres; (7) The 'New Weegies': the Glasgow novel in the twenty-first century; (Alan Bissett); (8) Devolution and drama: imagining the possible; (Adrienne Scullion); (9) Twenty-one collections for the twenty-first century; (Christopher Whyte); (10) Shifting boundaries: Scottish Gaelic literature after devolution; (Maire Ni Annrachain); (11) Pedlars of their nation's past: Douglas Galbraith, James Robertson and; the new historical novel (Mariadele Boccardi); (12) Scottish television drama and parochial representation; (Gordon Gibson and Sarah Neely); (13) Scotland's new house: domesticity and domicile in contemporary; women's poetry (Alice Entwistle); (14) Redevelopment fiction: architecture, town-planning, and 'unhomeliness'; (Peter Clandfield and Christian Lloyd); (15) Concepts of corruption: crime fiction and the Scottish 'state'; (Gill Plain); (16) A key to the future: hybridity in contemporary children's literature; (Fiona McCulloch); (17) Gaelic prose fiction in English; (Michelle Macleod); PART III: Authors; (18) Towards a Scottish theatrocracy: Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead; (Colin Nicholson); (19) Alasdair Gray and post-millennial writing; (Stephen Bernstein); (20) James Kelman and the deterritorialisation of power; (Aaron Kelly); (21) Harvesting Plurality: Andrew Greig and modernism; (Simon Dentith); (22) Radical hospitality: Christopher Whyte and cosmopolitanism; (Fiona Wilson); (23) Iain (M.) Banks: utopia, nationalism and the posthuman; (Gavin Miller); (24) Burying the man that was: Janice Galloway and gender; disorientation (Carole Jones); (25) In/outside: race and citizenship in the work of Jackie Kay; (Matthew Brown); (26) Irvine Welsh: parochialism, pornography and globalisation; (Robert Morace); (27) Clearing space: Kathleen Jamie and ecology; (Louisa Gairn); (28) Don Paterson and poetic autonomy; (Scott Hames); (29) Alan Warner, post-feminism and the emasculated nation; (Berthold Schoene); (30) A.L. Kennedy's dysphoric fictions; (David Borthwick); PART IV: Topics; (31) Between camps: masculinity, race and nation in post-devolution Scotland; (Alice Ferrebe); (32) Crossing the borderline: post-devolution Scottish lesbian and gay writing; (Joanne Winning); (33) Subaltern Scotland: devolution and postcoloniality; (Stefanie Lehner); (34) Renton's bairns: identity and language in the post-Trainspotting novel; (Kirstin Innes); (35) Cultural devolutions: Scotland, Northern Ireland and the return of the; postmodern (Matthew McGuire); (36) Alternative sensibilities: devolutionary comedy and Scottish camp; (Ian Brown); (37) Against realism: contemporary Scottish literature and the supernatural; (Kirsty Macdonald); (38) A double realm: Scottish literary translation in the twenty-first century; (John Corbett); (39) Scots abroad: the international reception of Scottish literature; (Katherine Ashley); (40) A very interesting place: representing Scotland in American romance; novels (Euan Hague and David Stenhouse); (41) Cinema and the economics of representation: public funding of film in; Scotland (Duncan Petrie); (42) Twenty-first-century storytelling: context, performance, renaissance; (Valentina Bold); Notes on contributors; Bibliography.

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