Introduction

Citation

Pittin-Hédon M, Manfredi C & Hames S (2022) Introduction. In: Pittin-Hedon M, Manfredi C & Hames S (eds.) Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-16. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-scottish-writing-after-devolution.html

Abstract
Overview of Scottish literary, critical and political developments since 1999. ‘POLITICS WILL NOT LET ME ALONE’, says the anti-hero of Alasdair Gray’s 1982 Janine. While the politics of nationhood have always been a constitutive factor in Scottish literature (whether conceived as a critical, educational or publishing endeavour), never before has public constitutional debate tugged so insistently at the field’s collective sleeve, and at times its collective unconscious. The hallmark of our own scholarly moment is to feel an uncanny continuity between the arguments of politicians, campaigners and online echochambers and the stakes and subtexts of Scottish literary criticism

Keywords
scottish literature; devolution; scottish politics

Notes
Co-authored introduction to co-edited book

People

Dr Scott Hames

Senior Lecturer, English Studies