Roots and fruits of Scottish culture : Scottish identities, history and contemporary literature / edited by Ian Brown and Jean Berton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Ian, 1945 February 28- editor.

Berton, Jean, editor.

Series:

Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) ; Number 19.

Occasional papers ; Number 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scottish literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Scottish literature.

Literature and society--Scotland--History--21st century.

Literature and society.

Nationalism and literature--Scotland--History--21st century.

Nationalism and literature.

Scotland--Civilization--21st century.

Scotland.

Scotland--Intellectual life--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xx, 157 p.))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Glasgow : Scottish Literature International, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At this key moment in Scotland's history, earlier identities are being re-examined and re-presented, and personal and cultural histories are being redefined and reconsidered. These eleven essays show how the re-creation and reimagination of Scottish culture, its identities and its tropes, are being developed by a range of leading Scottish writers.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Front matter

Title page

Copyright

Body

Introduction: The many versions of identity and history

Part 1. Performing Identities

1. 'Breid, barley-bree an paintit room': history, identity and utopianism in Lyndsay's Thrie Estaitis and Greig's Glasgow Girls

2. Figuring, disfiguring the literary past:

3. History and tartan as enactment and performance of varieties of 'Scottishness'

Part 2. Poetic Roots and Identities

4. New Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect: 'A sly wink to the master'

5. Bards and radicals in contemporary Scottish poetry: Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, and an evolving tradition

6. Adopting cultures and embodying myths in Jackie Kay's The Adoption Papers and Red Dust Road

Part 3. The Fruits of Fiction, Myth and History

7. The Kailyard's ghost: community in modern Scottish fiction

8. Historicity, narration and myths in Karin Altenberg's Island of Wings

9. James Robertson's angle on Scottish society and politics in And the Land Lay Still

10. 'Scotland', literature, history, home, and melancholy in Andrew Greig's novel Romanno Bridge

11. Investigating the body politic: dystopian visions of a new Scotland in Paul Johnston's Quintilian Dalrymple novels

Back matter

Notes on contributors

Back cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-908980-08-7

OCLC:

900223640