Roots and Fruits of Scottish Culture: Scottish Identities, History and Contemporary Literature (Occasional Papers) - Softcover

Scotland's culture is vigorous and vibrant, energised by questions of history and identity, by interpretations of the past and by the possibilities for the future. At this key moment, earlier identities are being re-examined and re-presented, and personal and cultural histories are being redefined and reconsidered in contemporary life and literature. It is these themes of re-examination, re-presentation, redefinition and reconsideration that the eleven essays in this volume explore. Together, they show how the multifarious roots embedded in contemporary Scottish life and letters bear fruit - often in surprising ways - and how the re-creation and reimagination of Scottish culture, its identities and its tropes, are being developed by a range of leading Scottish writers.

Ian Brown is an author and a feature writer for the "Globe and Mail "whose work has won many national magazine and national newspaper awards. His most recent book, "The Boy in the Moon: A Father s Search for His Disabled Son", was named one of "The ""New York Times "10 best books of the year, reviewed on the front cover of "The Times Book Review", and Ian Brown was the subject of a feature interview on NPR's "Fresh Air". The book was also the winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the Trillium Book Award. His previous books include "Freewheeling, "which won the National Business Book Award, and the provocative examination of modern masculinity, "Man Overboard". He lives in Toronto.