The Space of Fiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781908980090)

Contemporary Scottish fiction is vigorous, vivid and diverse, eschewing the straitjackets of genre and resisting categorisation as either 'mainstream' or 'literary'. Meanwhile, Scotland itself refuses to conform to external notions of what it is, and what it can become. The literature of this post-devolution nation comes in a multitude of voices. The Space of Fiction examines how Scottish writers have responded to, and been affected by, the nation's ongoing political discourse. Examining in detail the works of Des Dillon, Anne Donovan, Michel Faber, Laura Hird, Alison Miller, Ewan Morrison, James Robertson, Suhayl Saadi, Zoë Strachan and their contemporaries, The Space of Fiction traces their multifarious approaches to a post-national, cosmopolitan, multicultural and even globalised Scotland, and explores their notions of space, of place, and of the nature of identity.

Author: Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon
ISBN-10: 1908980095
ISBN-13: 9781908980090
Publisher: Asls
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2015
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.48d