The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution - by Scott Hames (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>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. </p> <p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Provides a cultural history and political critique of Scottish devolution</strong></p> <ul> <li>Provides the first critical history of Scottish devolution</li> <li>Offers the first multidisciplinary study of (UK or Scottish) devolution: engaging extensively with the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists and cultural theorists</li> <li>Combines close attention to political and electoral factors with cultural issues and developments </li> <li> <p>Draws on political theory which illuminates devolution from outside its terms </p></li></ul> <p>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 <em>Scottish International</em>, <em>Radical Scotland</em>, <em>Cencrastus </em>and <em>Edinburgh Review</em>, 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.</p> <p></p> <p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Provides a cultural history and political critique of Scottish devolution 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. Scott Hames is Lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University of Stirling.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><em>The Literary Politics Of Scottish Devolution</em> is one of the most original and arresting studies of our political culture written for 10 years. It is a powerful deconstruction of the political myths that made modern Scotland and a compelling reassessment of Holyrood's -- frequently miscast -- institutional origins.</p>--Jamie Maxwell "The Herald "<br><br><p>Hames amasses a formidable range of evidence in support of this contention, weaving together historical and literary sources to produce a brilliant book that both gives an original new account of the campaign for devolution and raises difficult but productive questions about demands for greater Scottish autonomy today.</p>--Ben Jackson is Associate Professor of Modern History at Oxford University "Political Quarterly "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Scott Hames is Senior Lecturer at the University of Stirling, where he leads the MLitt programme in Scottish Literature. He wrote <i>The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation</i> (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) and edited the <i>Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman</i> (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and <i>Unstated: Writers on Scottish Independence</i> (Word Power Books, 2012).<p>
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