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How Late It Was for England: James Kelman’s Scottish Booker Prize
Contemporary Literarture (2000)
  • Nicola Pitchford, Fordham University
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Abstract
Focuses on critical discourse surrounding the 1994 selection of Scottish author James Kelman's 'How Late It Was, How Late' for the Booker Prize. Examples of attempts by English conservatives and Scottish nationalists to deploy culture in articulating their visions of national identity; Different versions of what English and Scottish culture should be.
Keywords
  • Booker Prize,
  • British Literature,
  • James Kelman
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter 2000
DOI
10.2307/1209008
Citation Information
Nicola Pitchford. "How Late It Was for England: James Kelman’s Scottish Booker Prize" Contemporary Literarture Vol. 41 Iss. 4 (2000) p. 693 - 725 ISSN: 1548-9949
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/nicola_pitchford/5/