Jessica Homberg-Schramm

"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative,  this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is  haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and  inferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating.  Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottish  novels, this study explores the postcolonial in Scottish fiction in  order to investigate the underlying discursive power relations that  shape the Scottish literary imagination. The study consequently  demonstrates that the analysis of Scottish national identity profits  from this new angle of interpretation of the Scottish novel as postcolonial.  The analysis of discourses such as those of gender, class,  space and place, and race reveals how the construction of the Scottish  as marginalised permeates the width of the contemporary Scottish  novel, by referring to diverse examples, such as James Kelman‚Äôs  How late it was, how late or genre fiction such as Ian Rankin‚Äôs Set in  Darkness. Thus, this study provides an insightful reading in the wake  of current political developments such as the Scottish independence  referendum."

‚ÄúColonised by Wankers‚Äù

Jessica Homberg-Schramm

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