Scotland is Fucked
Irvine Welsh, Andrew Drennan and the Deconstruction of Nationalism
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https://doi.org/10.36399/GroundingsUG.3.257Keywords:
Scotland, Nationalism, Irvine Welsh, Andrew Drennan, Trainspotting, Cancer Party, Deconstruction, NarrativesAbstract
Welsh and Drennan’s work demonstrates significant changes in the literary depiction of the Scottish nation. Moving away from traditional counter-colonial and separatist rhetoric, they direct attention to the problem of consumerism as a new colonising power. Their discourse is permeated by violence, which is also made manifest on a thematic level. Drennan’s novel inverts the implications of the treatment of violence by suggesting that it can be both self-inflicted and self-indulgent.
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