The Caledonian Trans Reveal: Scottish Gender Novels in the Literature of Devolution
An event celebrating writer and performer Harry Josephine Giles' forthcoming chapter in the Routledge Companion of Scottish Literature. Giles's chapter focuses on the recurrence of transgender figures across genres in late-twentieth century Scottish literature, from Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory (1984) to Ali Smith's Girl Meets Boy (2007), asking how these literary representations of trans identity at once reveal Scottish national anxieties and obscure trans subjectivity, writing possible futures for a Scottish nation over trans stories. A panel of speakers will respond to Giles' work, followed by roundtable discussion.With the support of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.