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James Kelman. by Kovesi, Simon

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The Edinburgh companion to James Kelman / James Kelman

“…James Kelman…”
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British working-class fiction : narratives of refusal and the struggle against work by Del Valle Alcalá, Roberto

Table of Contents: “…Proletarian Exodus and Resistance in James Kelman and Irvine Welsh. 4.1. The Collapse of Measure: Postmodern Abstraction and Proletarian Flight in James Kelman ; 4.2. …”
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The contemporary British novel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; 1 Realism, Dreams and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro; 2 Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas; 3 The Unnatural Scene: The Fiction of Irvine Welsh; 4 Angela Carter's Magic Realism; 5 Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman; 6 One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amis' Fiction; 7 Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions; 8 Salman Rushdie's Fathers; 9 Postcolonialism and 'The Figure of the Jew': Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith.…”
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The Cosmopolitan Novel. by Schoene, Berthold

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Imagining Cosmopolitics; Chapter 1 Families against the World: Ian McEwan; Chapter 2 James Kelman's Cosmopolitan Jeremiads; Part II Tour du Monde; Chapter 3 The World Begins Its Turn with You, or How David Mitchell's Novels Think; Part III Creating the World; Chapter 4 Global Noise: Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru; Chapter 5 Suburban Worlds: Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor; Coda: The Cosmopolitan Imagination; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The Cosmopolitan Novel. by Schoene, Berthold

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Imagining Cosmopolitics; Chapter 1 Families against the World: Ian McEwan; Chapter 2 James Kelman's Cosmopolitan Jeremiads; Part II Tour du Monde; Chapter 3 The World Begins Its Turn with You, or How David Mitchell's Novels Think; Part III Creating the World; Chapter 4 Global Noise: Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru; Chapter 5 Suburban Worlds: Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor; Coda: The Cosmopolitan Imagination; Bibliography; Index.…”
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What rough beasts? : Irish and Scottish studies in the new millennium

Table of Contents: “…; "AMONG THE MANY WONDERS OF WORLD"; DOMESTICITY AND DIASPORA; "THE HISTORIES OF YEER BLOOD"; CELTIC IDENTITY, IRISH IMMIGRATION AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS TENSIONS IN SCOTTISH INTERWAR LITERATURE AND SOCIETY; KEEPING IT REEL; GHOST WRITER; JOYCEAN FORM IN JAMES KELMAN'S EARLY FICTION.…”
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From Trocchi to trainspotting : Scottish critical theory since 1960 by Gardiner, Michael, 1970-

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The Modern Scottish Novel by Craig, Cairns

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Scottish literature and postcolonial literature : comparative texts and critical perspectives

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 11 Muriel Spark and Hannah Arendt in PalestineCHAPTER 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.…”
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The Wiley Blackwell companion to contemporary British and Irish literature

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 16 Where They Are: Language and Place in James Kelman's Fiction -- Language -- Place -- Conclusion -- James Kelman: Published Novels and Short Story Collections -- Bibliography -- Chapter 17 Howard Barker (and " the Art of Theatre ") -- Biographical Landmarks -- The Sociopolitical Premises of the Theatre of Catastrophe -- The Theatre of Catastrophe: The Necessity of Tragedy -- The Art of Theatre: Tragedy and Intimacy -- References -- Chapter 18 Marina Lewycka -- References -- Chapter 19 Dermot Healy -- References -- Chapter 20 David Edgar -- References -- Chapter 21 Ian McEwan…”
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Addiction Dilemmas : Family Experiences from Literature and Research and Their Challenges for Practice by Orford, Jim

Table of Contents: “…We'll be there for him : a family responds to relapse -- Long day's journey into night by Eugene O'Neill -- Tough love : a television studio discussion -- Wives of gamblers -- The tenant of wildfell hall by Anne Bront -- British sikh wives and daughters stand up to men's drinking -- Nil by mouth : a film by Gary Oldman -- Worrying for drinkers in aboriginal Australia -- A prodigal son : the mother's story -- Parents of problem gamblers -- The tale of Caitlin Thomas -- Dylan Thomas in America by John Malcolm Brinnin -- An imaginary conversation : wives in Mexico, England, South Korea and Italy -- Father figure by Beverley Nichols -- Growing up with my mother by Virginia Ironside -- Mrs Sara Coleridge and friends -- Five husbands of wives with drinking problems : a focus group -- A chancer by James Kelman -- Growing up with parents who drink excessively : four stories -- Baudelaire and his mother in chains -- Fever pitch by Richard Brooks -- I only had the baby's welfare at heart : concerned grandmothers.…”
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Reading Capitalist Realism. by Shonkwiler, Alison

Table of Contents: “…Novelistic Realisms; Adultery, Crisis, Contract -- Andrew Hoberek; Things Break Apart: James Kelman, Ali Smith, and the Neoliberal Novel -- Alissa G. …”
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Glasgow. by Macafee, Caroline

Table of Contents: “…Bell, Wee Macgreegor; 5.2.2 McArthur and Long, No Mean City; 5.2.3 Helen Pryde, 'The McFlannels'; 5.2.4 William Mcllvanney, Laidlaw; 5.2.5 Alan Spence, Its Colours they are Fine; 5.2.6 James Kelman, "Nice tae be nice"; 5.2.7 Alex Hamilton, "Stretch Marks"; 5.2.8 Tom Leonard, "Mr. …”
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In praise of profanity by Adams, Michael, 1961-

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The British and Irish Short Story Handbook by Malcolm, David

Table of Contents: “…Gabriel Josipovici (born 1940) -- James Joyce (1882-1941) -- James Kelman (born 1946) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- Hanif Kureishi (born 1954) -- James Lasdun (born 1958) -- Mary Lavin (1912-1996) -- D. …”
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The Edinburgh companion to contemporary Scottish literature

Table of Contents: “…/ Zoë Strachan -- The 'new Weegies' : the Glasgow novel in the twenty-first century / Alan Bissett -- Devolution and drama : imagining the possible / Adrienne Scullion -- Twenty-one collections for the twenty-first century / Christopher Whyte -- Shifting boundaries : Scottish Gaelic literature after devolution / Máire Ní Annracháin -- Pedlars of their nation's past : Douglas Galbraith, James Robertson and the new historical novel / Mariadele Boccardi -- Scottish television drama and parochial representation / Gordon Gibson and Sarah Neely -- Scotland's new house : domesticity and domicile in contemporary Scottish women's poetry / Alice Entwistle -- Redevelopment fiction : architecture, town-planning and unhomeliness / Peter Clandfield and Christian Lloyd -- Concepts of corruption : crime fiction and the Scottish state / Gill Plain -- A key to the future : hybridity in contemporary children's fiction / Fiona McCulloch -- Gaelic prose fiction in English / Michelle Macleod -- Towards a Scottish theatrocracy : Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead / Colin Nicholson -- Alasdair Gray and post-millennial writing / Stephen Bernstein -- James Kelman and the deterritorialisation of power / Aaron Kelly -- Harnessing plurality : Andrew Greig and modernism / Simon Dentith -- Radical hospitality : Christopher Whyte and cosmopolitanism / Fiona Wilson -- Iain (M.) …”
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