TY - BOOK AU - Hames,Scott TI - The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation SN - 9781474418133 U1 - 320.94110905 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Decentralization in government KW - Scotland KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Political culture KW - Scottish literature KW - Political aspects KW - Scottish periodicals KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: The Dream and the Grind --; 1. Chaps with Claymores to Grind: Literary and Political Nationalism 1967–79 --; 2. Machine Politics of British Devolution 1967–79 --; 3. The Scottish Dimension: Cultural and Constitutional Politics 1979–87 --; 4. Claims of Right: Self-Determination and Consensus 1987–92 --; 5. And the Land Lay Still: Curating Devolution with James Robertson --; 6. Language Nationalism and Vernacular Literary Space --; 7. Devolution and the Spectacle of Voice: Irvine Welsh, A. L. Kennedy, James Kelman --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Provides a cultural history and political critique of Scottish devolutionProvides 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474418157 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474418157 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474418157/original ER -