Boundless Scotland: Space in Contemporary Scottish Fiction

Monika Szuba

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. Boundless Scotland: Space in Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Red. Szuba, Monika . : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2015, 218 s. ISBN 978-83-7865-326-4

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ISBN/ISSN:

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218

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Acknowledgements10
Carla Sassi (University of Verona, Italy). Foreword12
Alan Riach (University of Glasgow, Scotland). Boundless Scotland: An Introduction14
LOCAL SPATIALITIES18
David Malcolm (University of Gdańsk, Poland). Local Universes: Space in Robin Jenkins’s The Cone-Gatherers and James Kennaway’s Tunes of Glory20
Aniela Korzeniowska (University of Warsaw, Poland). Boundless Scotland but Binding Spaces: Mo said she was quirky by James Kelman34
Caroline Jones (University of Salford, United Kingdom) Mapping Edinburgh46
LIMINAL SPACES. PASSABLE BOUNDARIES60
Pilar Sánchez Calle (University of Jaén, Spain). Female Identities and Personal Space in Blood by Janice Galloway62
Jane Stedman (University of Manchester, United Kingdom). “An annexe of nowhere”: Overspill Identity in Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989)78
SPACES OF THE SELF92
Dominika Lewandowska-Rodak (Independent Scholar) The Self and the City in Modern Scottish Fiction. A Study of James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late, Alasdair Gray’s Lanark: A Life in Four Books and Iain Banks’s The Bridge94
Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen (Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza, Spain). Landscapes of the Mind: Spaces for the Dialogical Self in The Other McCoy112
BETWEEN MODES136
Halszka Leleń (University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland). Semiotics of Archipelago in George Mackay Brown’s Narratives138
Robin M.J. MacKenzie (University of St Andrews, Scotland). “A Swithering of Modes”: Realist and Non-Realist Space in the Fiction of Christopher Whyte156
FUTURE SPACES176
Karol Jaroszewski (University of Gdańsk, Poland). The Outer and the Inner: Space in the Works of Contemporary Scottish Science Fiction Writers178
Katarzyna Pisarska (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland). Liminal Spatialities: Visions of Scotland in Matthew Fitt’s But n Ben A-Go-Go190
Contributors214

ALANRIACH

inhistoryandﬁction,throughalltheartsofthenovelistandstory-

teller,andtheessaysinthisbookopenwaysofunderstandingthis

intheparticulartermsofreferenceofmodernﬁction,inScotland.

meveryword,Scotland,requiresaparticularspatialsense:ana-

tion,withborders,butdebatableones,alandmasswiththousandsof

islands,anarchipelagoofidentities,partofalargerpoliticalstatein

thehistoryoftheBritishEmpire,adescribablelocationofcontested

hierarchiesofpositionandpower.Acountrywithnosingleunifying

languagebutapluralityofthem,andgreatwritingpre-eminentlyin

Gaelic,ScotsandEnglish,overcenturies.

Suchcontestedspacesasourwritersdealwithaddressthemes

andissuescommontoallgreatﬁctionanywhere,ofcourse:mat-

tersoflocality,gender,selmood,language,thecountryandthecity,

theworldasitimposes,themindasitconstructs.Yetmanyhave

aspeciﬁcallyScottishcharacter,intrinsicallyso,thatmightbeun-

imaginableinanyotherplace.meimpositionsofwar,thelegacyof

militarismandtheurgencyofpaciﬁcism,haveintensebearingin

theworkofRobinJenkinsandJamesKennaway;theconstraintand

potentialofwomeninthepatriarchyareincontinualtensioninthat

ofJaniceGalloway;thelimitsofindividualperceptionandsocial

understanding,andofanypossibleactionforchange,areconstantly

pressedagainstandtestedinthatofJamesKelman;thefructifying

interconnectionsofrealismandfantasyarekeynarrativefuelinthat

ofAlasdairGray,IainBanks,ChristopherWhyteandMatthewFitt.

mesearetheneededco-ordinatepointsthatinformtheessaysgath-

eredinthisbook,usefullycollectedingroupsdescribed,butnotde-

ﬁned,bytheirdesignations.Eachismappedontospeciﬁcareasand

placesinthecomprehensivespacecalledScotland.TunesofGlory

islockedintoStirling;meBridge,howeverabstractitsometimes

seems,isthatovertheForth,to,orfrom,NorthQueensferry;Kel-

man’sblindSamsoninHowLateItWas,HowLate,inhabitsGlasgow

assurelyasMackayBrown’sﬁctioninhabitsOrkney.

mevariousnessofplaceisremarkable,butyoucancrossintodif-

ferentspacesquitequickly.SpaceisnotlargeinScotlandinthesame

wayasitisinAmerica,inOlson’sphrase,butitismultiple,layered,

multidimensional,intimate,intricateanddeep.Andyoucanmove

acrossdiﬁerentspaceswithemphaticallysingularcharacter,from

onetoanother,speedily.

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