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Location, dislocation: film and the Trossachs

These pieces of creative writing and critical contextualisation explore themes of identity, change, community, memory and landscape, gender formation, national history and the impact of industrialisation and social change. Relying on narrators whose voices belong to ‘the demotic’, and who may or may not be deluded or unreliable, lives are experienced which seem ‘normal’ but are in fact on the very edge. One is a serial killer, another is obese, a third a principled thief, a fourth dying of AIDS. Under the extreme pressure of their lives, they experience grace, seeking happiness or survival among social forces that threaten their very existence. Their existences are contextualised within post-industrialist, post-colonialist, and gender theory as matters of the body and of cultural representation.