“Refusing to collaborate with a transendental, totalising and finally determining sense of national identity, Scottish novelists since the 1980s have concentrated instead on individual moments of crisis, alienation and fragmentation, moments dramatising the loss and discovery of self, as they are articulated through the lives of some of thos conventionally excluded from the story of Scotland.” Self DiscoveryScotlandAlienationExcludedScottish LiteratureScottish Novelists Book:Studies in Scottish Fiction: 1945 to the Present Source: Studies in Scottish Fiction: 1945 to the Present