Abstract
This chapter examines works of contemporary Irish and Scottish fiction in relation to the post-1998 devolutionary political frameworks in Scotland and Northern Ireland and the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger economy in the Republic. Using the multivalent concept of ‘devolution’ as a guiding lens, it considers over three sections how novelists have been engaged in transforming inherited literary paradigms that have proven disabling and restrictive, and creatively rethinking conceptions of history, gender relations, and cultural identity. Focusing on works by Alasdair Gray, Patrick McCabe, Robert McLiam Wilson, Anne Enright, A. L. Kennedy, Jenni Fagan, and Mike McCormack, the chapter explores the relationship between the formal and stylistic experiments found in their writings and the concepts of identity that they give rise to and/or resist.
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