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"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 ishaunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection andinferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating.Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottishnovels, this study explores the postcolonial in Scottish fiction inorder to investigate the underlying discursive power relations thatshape the Scottish literary imagination. The study consequentlydemonstrates that the analysis of Scottish national identity profitsfrom 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 Scottishas marginalised permeates the width of the contemporary Scottishnovel, by referring to diverse examples, such as James Kelman’sHow late it was, how late or genre fiction such as Ian Rankin’s Set inDarkness. Thus, this study provides an insightful reading in the wakeof current political developments such as the Scottish independencereferendum."

United Kingdom, Great Britain --- Scotland --- Literature & literary studies --- Literary studies: post-colonial literature --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)