Cover -- Copyright -- Introduction -- Part I Postcolonial Revisions: Coloniality and Empire in Scottish Writing 1786-1914 -- CHAPTER 1 A 'Conceptual Alliance': 'Interculturation' in Robert Burns and Kamau Brathwaite -- CHAPTER 2 'Almost the Same as Being Innocent': Celebrated Murderesses and National Narratives in Walter Scott's The Heart of Mid-Lothian and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace -- CHAPTER 3 Annals of Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro -- CHAPTER 4 Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Poetic Tradition -- CHAPTER 5 Captains of Industry, Lords of Misrule: Carlyle and the Second Scottish Enlightenment -- CHAPTER 6 Literary Affinities and the Postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad -- CHAPTER 7 John Buchan and Wilson Harris: Myth and Counter-Myth, Exploration and Empire -- Part II Postcolonialism and Modern Scottish Literature 1914-1979 -- CHAPTER 8 Wole Soyinka and Hugh MacDiarmid: The Violence and Virtues of Nations -- CHAPTER 9 Neil M. Gunn, Chinua Achebe and the Postcolonial Debate -- CHAPTER 10 'East is West and West is East': Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism -- CHAPTER 11 Muriel Spark and Hannah Arendt in Palestine -- CHAPTER 12 Rewriting and the Politics of Inheritance Robin Jenkins and Jean Rhys -- Part III Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Literature -- CHAPTER 13 Race, Nation, Class and Language Use in Tom Leonard's Intimate Voices and Linton Kwesi Johnson's Mi Revalueshanary Fren -- CHAPTER 14 Conversion and Subversion in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela's The Translator -- CHAPTER 15 This is not sarcasm believe me yours sincerely: James Kelman, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Amos Tutuola.

CHAPTER 16 'Our Little Life is Rounded with a Sleep': The Scottish Presence in Andrew Greig's In Another Light and Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide -- CHAPTER 16 'Our Little Life is Rounded with a Sleep': The Scottish Presence in Andrew Greig's In Another Light and Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide -- CHAPTER 17 'Dangerous Liaisons': Gender Politics in the Contemporary Scottish and Irish ImagiNation -- CHAPTER 18 Captain Thistlewood's Jacobite: Reading the Caribbean in Scotland's Historiography of Slavery -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.