Scottish Science Fiction: Writing Scottish Literature Back into History

The increasing vigour of Scottish literature since the 1980s has led not only to a revival in literary fiction, but also to a growing diversification into other narrative genres. The detective story – in the form of so-called “tartan noir” – has been the most obvious popular genre to undergo reviva...

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Argitaratua izan da:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises,
Egile nagusia: Miller, Gavin
Formatua: Article ou chapitre numérique
Hizkuntza:Anglais
Argitaratua: Études écossaises 2023
Sarrera elektronikoa:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Gaia:The increasing vigour of Scottish literature since the 1980s has led not only to a revival in literary fiction, but also to a growing diversification into other narrative genres. The detective story – in the form of so-called “tartan noir” – has been the most obvious popular genre to undergo revival, but science fiction has also blossomed in the work of authors such as Alasdair Gray, Iain (M.) Banks, and Ken MacLeod. In this article, I trace something of the problematic history of Scottish s...