Michael Gardiner is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick Graeme MacDonald is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is a co-editor of Post-Theory: New Directions in Criticism (Edinburgh University Press, 1999). Niall O'Gallagher is Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Celtic at the University of Glasgow. He is currently preparing a book on Alasdair Gray and Empire: Scottish Literature and the Challenges of Postcolonial Theory.

• IntroductionMichael GardinerPart I: Postcolonial Revisions: Coloniality and Empire in Scottish Writing 1786-19141 A 'Conceptual Alliance': 'Interculturation' in Robert Burns and Kamau Brathwaite Leith Davis and Kristen Kahlis2 'Almost the Same as Being Innocent': Celebrated Murderesses and National Narratives in Walter Scott's The Heart of Mid-Lothian and Margaret Atwood's Alias GraceEvan Gottlieb3 Annals of Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro Katie Trumpener4 Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Poetic TraditionDouglas S. Mack5 Captains of Industry, Lords of Misrule: Carlyle and the Second Scottish EnlightenmentChristopher Harvie6 Literary Affinities and the Postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph ConradLinda Dryden7 John Buchan and Wilson Harris: Myth and Counter-Myth, Exploration and EmpireDavid PunterPart II: Postcolonialism and Modern Scottish Literature 1914-19798 Wole Soyinka and Hugh MacDiarmid: The Violence and Virtues of NationsAlan Riach9 Neil M. Gunn, Chinua Achebe and the Postcolonial DebateMargery Palmer McCulloch10 'East is West and West is East': Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate CosmopolitanismScott Lyall11 Unfinished Business: Muriel Spark and Hannah Arendt in PalestineMartin McQuillan12 Rewriting and the Politics of Inheritance in Robin Jenkins and Jean RhysMarina MacKay Part III: Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Literature13 Race, Nation, Class and Language Use in Tom Leonard's Intimate Voices and Linton Kwesi Johnson's Mi Revalueshanary FrenLiam Connell and Victoria Sheppard14 Conversion and Subversion in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and Leila Aboulela's The TranslatorWilly Maley15 This is not sarcasm believe me yours sincerely: James Kelman, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Amos TutuolaIain Lambert16 'Our Little Life is Rounded with a Sleep': The Scottish Presence in Andrew Greig's In Another Light and Amitav