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Spitfire Britain and the Zombie Union

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Hames S (2020) Spitfire Britain and the Zombie Union. The Drouth. 10.2020.

Abstract
This essay applies some ideas from my book on the Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution to recent developments, focusing on the Britishness of devolution and what Brexit means for its future. I argue that Brexit-as-English-awakening torpedoes the British high politics that gave us devolution, and turns ‘the Union’ against unionism.

Keywords
Unionism; Brexit; Nationalism; Scottishness; Britishness

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This article appears in Issue 65

StatusPublished
Publication date31/10/2020
Publication date online09/11/2020
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/32124
PublisherThe Drouth
Place of publicationGlasgow

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Dr Scott Hames

Dr Scott Hames

Senior Lecturer, English Studies