The debate that overtook Scottish society in the run-up to the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence featured the participation of Scottish artists, writers and literary critics in ways that stand in stark contrast to the utter cultural silence with which Brexit has been met in the Scottish literary scene. This article will seek to answer a two-fold question: what can contemporary trends in Scottish literary studies tell us about the political constitution of our discipline(s), and what can they tell us about our contemporary political conjuncture? In order to explore these issues, my investigation will map out the silences, interventions and (dis)engagements that have characterised the response to Brexit and the Indyref by Scottish literary studies and by Scottish writing. I will examine these in relation both to the politics of contextualism and the nationed disciplinary framework that define Scottish literature as a field of study, and to the post-postnational, sovereignist conjuncture of which both the Indyref and Brexit are manifestations. Gauging the differential interest that the Indyref and Brexit have generated in Scottish literature on the one hand, and its relationship to the political moment we are traversing on the other, provides fundamental insights into the political constitution of the discipline.

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民族化的沉默，干预和（不参与）订婚：英国脱欧与后印第斯苏格兰文学中的语境主义政治

在2014年苏格兰独立公投之前，一场席卷苏格兰社会的辩论以苏格兰艺术家，作家和文学评论家的参与与苏格兰退欧在文化上的彻底沉默形成鲜明对比。文学现场。本文将寻求回答两个问题：苏格兰文学研究的当代趋势能告诉我们有关学科学科的政治构成的信息，它们又能告诉我们有关当代政治形势的信息吗？为了探讨这些问题，我的调查将勾勒出苏格兰文学研究和苏格兰写作对英国退欧和英迪瑞夫的反应所特有的沉默，干预和（脱离）参与。我将结合上下文主义的政治学和将苏格兰文学定义为研究领域的国家纪律框架，以及英迪里夫（Indyref）和英国脱欧（Brexit）的后国家主权之后的结合进行研究。一方面衡量Indyref和Brexit在苏格兰文学中产生的不同利益，另一方面衡量其与我们所经历的政治时刻的关系，可以提供对该学科的政治构成的基本见解。