Roots and Fruits of Scottish Culture : Scottish Identities, History and Contemporary Literature.

Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright -- Body -- Introduction: The many versions of identity and history -- Part 1. Performing Identities -- 1. 'Breid, barley-bree an paintit room': history, identity and utopianism in Lyndsay's Thrie Estaitis and Greig's Glasgow Girls -- 2. Figuring, disfiguring the literary past: -- 3. History and tartan as enactment and performance of varieties of 'Scottishness' -- Part 2. Poetic Roots and Identities -- 4. New Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect: 'A sly wink to the master' -- 5. Bards and radicals in contemporary Scottish poetry: Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, and an evolving tradition -- 6. Adopting cultures and embodying myths in Jackie Kay's The Adoption Papers and Red Dust Road -- Part 3. The Fruits of Fiction, Myth and History -- 7. The Kailyard's ghost: community in modern Scottish fiction -- 8. Historicity, narration and myths in Karin Altenberg's Island of Wings -- 9. James Robertson's angle on Scottish society and politics in And the Land Lay Still -- 10. 'Scotland', literature, history, home, and melancholy in Andrew Greig's novel Romanno Bridge -- 11. Investigating the body politic: dystopian visions of a new Scotland in Paul Johnston's Quintilian Dalrymple novels -- Back matter -- Notes on contributors -- Back cover.

At this key moment in Scotland's history, earlier identities are being re-examined and re-presented, and personal and cultural histories are being redefined and reconsidered. These eleven essays show how the re-creation and reimagination of Scottish culture, its identities and its tropes, are being developed by a range of leading Scottish writers.

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