Table of Contents

Introduction: The many versions of identity and history v Part I: Performing Identities 1. 'Breid, barley-bree an paintit room': history, identity and utopianism in Lyndsay's Thrie Estaitis and Greig's Glasgow Girls (Trish Reid) 2. Figuring, disfiguring the literary past: the strange cases of Ross Sinclair and Calum Colvin (Camille Manfredi) 3. History and tartan as enactment and performance of varieties of 'Scottishness' (Ian Brown) Part II: Poetic Roots and Identities 4. New Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect: 'A sly wink to the master' (Karyn Wilson Costa) 5. Bards and radicals in contemporary Scottish poetry: Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, and an evolving tradition (Margery Palmer McCulloch) 6. Adopting cultures and embodying myths in Jackie Kay's The Adoption Papers and Red Dust Road (Matthew Pateman) Part III: The Fruits of Fiction, Myth and History 7. The Kailyard's ghost: community in modern Scottish fiction (Scott Lyall) 8. Historicity, narration and myths in Karin Altenberg's Island of Wings (Philippe Laplace) 9. James Robertson's angle on Scottish society and politics in And the Land Lay Still (Morag J. Munro-Landi) 10. 'Scotland', literature, history, home, and melancholy in Andrew Greig's novel Romanno Bridge (Jean Berton) 11. Investigating the body politic: dystopian visions of a new Scotland in Paul Johnston's Quintilian Dalrymple novels (David Clark) Notes on contributors