SPECIAL ISSUE
World and Nation: Tropes of Representation in Contemporary Scottish Writing
GUEST EDITOR
PETRONIA POPA-PETRAR,
Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Contents
Scottish Literature: Representing the Nation in the Age
of the Post-National
PETRONIA POPA-PETRAR
“Daft naff Scottish things”:
Stuff, Waste and Memory Objects in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet
CARMEN BORBELY
The Future as a Scenario of Hospitality in Ali Smith’s
There But For The
ANDREI BOGDAN POPA
“In came the self-evident and luminous little mess”:
Ethical Life Writing in Muriel Spark’s Loitering with Intent
PETRONIA POPA-PETRAR
Violence, Innocence and Redemption in
Irvine Welsh’s Chemical Mythos
ANDREI-CĂLIN ZAMFIRESCU
The Battle Within and the Battle Without:
The Posthuman Worldview of Ken MacLeod’s The Corporation Wars Trilogy
INDRAJIT PATRA
Postcards
Homes for Canadians (II)
DAVID BRIAN HOWARD
Reviews
Daniela Rogobete. Scotland and Scottishness: From Tradition to Modernity
DRAGOȘ IVANA
Scott Hames. The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation
RALUCA-GEORGIANA DEACONEASA
Jan Alber and Brian Richardson, eds. Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges
ADA BELEUȚĂ
Susan Watkins. Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
ANA-KARINA SCHNEIDER
Peter Martin. The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language
ADRIANA NEAGU
Notes on Contributors 181
Call for Papers 185
Call for Membership 188