STORRE

Though easily conflated, the cultural and political nationalism of modern Scotland are not the same. This chapter surveys parallel developments in cultural production and constitutional change from 1967 to 2018, and the role of the Scottish intelligentsia in re-instituting national political space. Drawing on the key journals and magazines of the pro-devolution left, we explore the role of Scottish cultural ‘voice' in affirming, mobilising and institutionalising the national-political frame. ...

This chapter examines some of the key issues related to the textualization of undocumented migrant journeys. Key amongst these is the constantly evolving generic contract underpinning narratives of travel assumed to be truthful and accurate. Given the widely acknowledged need for the critical study of travel to open its enquiries to a wider range of voices, territories and languages, the chapter explores what it might mean to ‘fabricate’ an account of migrant travel, as Omar Ba is said to hav...

This thesis explores live literature and its cultural value through experiential literary ethnography. Focusing on fiction in performance, it features ethnographies of two contrasting live literature events: the Hay Festival and the Polari Salon. Although live literature has grown fast to become a central part of contemporary literary culture, it has been neglected in scholarship until recently, particularly in relation to fiction, and in terms of performance, reception and value, and through...

After the death of her mother, a woman travels to a beach to escape from her emotional suffering. In this new setting, she begins to experience a number of physical transformations: her skin becomes green and coarse, her limbs are too flexible to be human, and her senses are inexplicably altered. As she slowly metamorphoses into a reptile, leaving the reality of her woman’s body behind, she heals her emotional pain and finds a new identity. This is the story of Irma, the reptile-woman in Dan...