The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution Voice Class Nation 1st Edition Scott Hames

The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution Voice Class Nation 1st Edition Scott Hames – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781474418133,1474418139

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• ISBN 10:1474418139
• ISBN 13:9781474418133
• Author(s): Scott Hames

Provides a cultural history and political critique of Scottish devolution
Provides the first critical history of Scottish devolutionOffers the first multidisciplinary study of (UK or Scottish) devolution: engaging extensively with the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists and cultural theoristsCombines close attention to political and electoral factors with cultural issues and developments Draws on political theory which illuminates devolution from outside its terms
This book is about the role of writers and intellectuals in shaping constitutional change. Considering an unprecedented range of literary, political and archival materials, it explores how questions of ‘voice’, language and identity featured in debates leading to the new Scottish Parliament in 1999. Tracing both the ‘dream’ of cultural empowerment and the ‘grind’ of electoral strategy, it reconstructs the influence of magazines such as Scottish International, Radical Scotland, Cencrastus and Edinburgh Review, and sets the fiction of William McIlvanney, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, A. L. Kennedy and James Robertson within a radically altered picture of devolved Scotland.

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