Identity Crisis in Contemporary Scottish Female Writing

Abstract

The thesis is preoccupied with personal, national, and female identity and its portrayal in the works of contemporary Scottish female writers. It explores the importance of individual levels of identity as depicted at first in The Trick Is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway, and then in Hotel World by Ali Smith. Juxtaposition of these two books, published twelve years apart, allows for noticing the development in the perception of identity throughout the years between the post-devolution era and the beginning of the new millennium.