MLA conference 4-7 January 2018 New York

MLA conference 4-7 January 2018   New York

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Remapping Scotland in a 21st-century global context : dialogues across spaces and forms in contemporary Scottish Literature

20th century – 21st century, or 21st century context on the fiction of the past. 300-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017; Glenda Norquay (G.Norquay@ljmu.ac.uk) Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon (marie-odile.hedon@univ-amu.fr)

 

 

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Longer version of the CFP:

Remapping Scotland in a 21st-century global context : dialogues across spaces and forms in contemporary Scottish Literature

 

The convenors of the panel invite contributions on the representation of Scotland in a global context, and on the literature (novels, drama or poetry) produced since the beginning of the 21st century. After the shift from devolutionary to post-devolution literature, there has been increasing debate around contexts that go beyond the national, with competing definitions of the “postnational” (Bell), “cosmopolitan” (Schoene) or even, in a renewed sense, “postmodern” (Harvie). In fiction settings which are ‘distant’ in various senses – remote Scottish islands (Louise Welsh, Alice Thomson), the U.S. (Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Ewan Morrison), or Sudan, Pakistan or India (Suhayl Saadi, Leila Aboulela) – have been increasingly popular, creating that sense of  “cognitive estrangement” which Darko Suvin famously attributed to science fiction. Scottish fiction now appears drawn to “the sense that something in the fictive world is dissonant with the reader’s experienced world” (Kirsty Logan, Ian Banks). Popular fiction, in particular the fiction now categorised as Tartan Noir, has also redefined the map of Scottish literature, not least of all in connection with the interaction between genre and gender boundaries (Louise Welsh, Lynn Anderson, Karen Campbell). Diasporic literature has also contributed to reshaping and resituating Scotland in a global context.  This panel focuses on these spatial, formal and textual dialogues conducted in 21st century literature. ​


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