Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction: Crip Enchantments, Autonomist Narratives of Disability, Classed and Nationed Avoidance: Notes Towards an Autonomist Cripistemology in Scottish Working-Class Literature
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 Autonomist Narratives of Disability and Crip Enchantments in Scottish Writing
	1.3 Towards an Autonomist Cripistemology
	1.4 Unpicking the Politics of Belonging of Scottish Literature and Working-Class Literature
	1.5 Nationed Avoidance: Whither Disability in Scottish Literary Studies?
	1.6 Classed Avoidance: Whither Disability in Working-Class Literature?
	1.7 Autonomist Cripping Within the Disciplinary Framework of Scottish Working-Class Literature
	1.8 Structure of the Book
	References
		Secondary Sources
Chapter 2: Writing the Crip Nation: Nationed Narratives of Disability in Scottish Literature
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Nationed Root Metaphors of Disability: The Cultural Roots of Nationed Avoidance in Scottish Literary Studies
	2.3 Spirits of Independence in Scottish Culture and Craig Smith’s The Mile: Nationed Root Metaphors of Disability and the Intensive Universalism of the Indyref
	2.4 Spectres of Defeatism in Scottish Studies and Andrew O’Hagan’s Our Fathers: The Exclusions of the Social National State
	2.5 Spectres of Defect and Underdevelopment in Scottish Studies and Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things: Anthropological Differences, Equaliberty and the Nation
	2.6 The Scottish Antisyzygy in Scottish Literature and Violet Jacob’s Flemington: Nationed Root Metaphors of Disability in the Age of the Scottish Literary Renaissance
	2.7 Conclusion
	References
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		Secondary Sources
Chapter 3: Crip Trash: Dysgenic Logics and Disability in Scottish Writing from the First Half of the Twentieth Century
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 The Politics of Eugenics and the Trash of Capitalism
	3.3 Edwin Muir’s Poor Tom and James Barke’s A Major Operation: The Revolutionary Trash of Progress
	3.4 Lorna Moon’s Dark Star and John Buchan’s Sick Heart River: Crippled by Hereditary Trash
	3.5 Conclusion
	References
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		Secondary Sources
Chapter 4: Crip Negativities: Disability and Refusals of Care and Work in Post-War Scottish Writing
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Statist Myths in the Golden Age of Welfare Capitalism
	4.3 Negative Dialectics and Crip Refusals in Work and Welfare Relations
	4.4 Robin Jenkins’ The Cone-Gatherers and Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman: Delinquent (Care-)Work
	4.5 Muriel Spark’s The Ballad of Peckham Rye and Alasdair Gray’s Lanark: Refusals of Care and Work
	4.6 Conclusion
	References
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		Secondary Sources
Chapter 5: Crip Dignities: Antagonism and Disability in Devolutionary Scottish Writing
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Autonomist Narratives of Disability, Welfare State Retrenchment and the Discourse on Defeatism
	5.3 Beyond the Discourse on Defeatism: Open Marxism, Antagonism and the Search for Dignity
	5.4 James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late and Jeff Torrington’s The Devil’s Carousel: Resisting the Violence of the Welfare State and Waged Work
	5.5 A.L. Kennedy’s Looking for the Possible Dance, Jessie Kesson’s Where the Apple Ripens & Other Stories, Agnes Owens’ For the Love of Willie: Resisting the Violence of Relationships of Care and Care Institutions
	5.6 Conclusion
	References
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		Secondary Sources
Chapter 6: Crip Precarities: Immaterial Labour and Disability in Post-Devolutionary Scottish Writing
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Autonomist Narratives of Disability and the ‘New Politics’ of the Nation
	6.3 Precarious Lives and Immaterial Labour: Non-Productive Bodies Under Neoliberalism
	6.4 John Burnside’s Glister: Disabling Systemic Precarity
	6.5 Ali Smith’s Hotel World and James Kelman’s Mo Said She Was Quirky: The Immaterial Labour of Benefit Claiming and Unpaid Care-Work
	6.6 Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon and A.L. Kennedy’s Paradise: Precarious Lives and Communities of Care
	6.7 Conclusion
	References
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Chapter 7: Conclusion: Crip Imaginal Machines: Disability, the Radical Imagination and Contextualist Pursuits in Scottish Literature
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 On Constructing Crip Imaginal Machines: Crip Enchantments and the Radical Imagination
	7.3 Crip Imaginal Machines in Scottish Literature I: Working Through Disciplinary Contextualisms
	7.4 Crip Imaginal Machines in Scottish Literature II: Contextualist Operations with Adorno, Lukács and Benjamin
	References
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Index