James Kelman
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2007.
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Contemporary British Novelists .
Includes bibliographies and index.
9780719070969; 9780719070969; Copyright; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Busconductor Hines (1984); 3 A Chancer (1985); 5 How late it was, how late (1994); 6 Translated Accounts (2001) andYou Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free (2004); Select bibliography; Index.
James Kelman is Scotland?s most influential contemporary prose artist. This is the first book-length study of his groundbreaking novels, and it analyses and contextualises each in detail. It argues that while Kelman offers a coherent and consistent vision of the world, each novel should be read as a distinct literary response to particular aspects of contemporary working-class language and culture. Richly historicised through diverse contexts such as Scottish socialism, public transport, emigration,?Booker Prize? culture and Glasgow?s controversial?City of Culture? status in 1990, Simon Kove.
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Kelman, James, 1946- --Criticism and interpretation.