Underground notes / Dale E. Peterson -- Cultural emancipation and the novelistic / Galin Tihanov -- Heroic poetry in a novelized age / Simon Dentith -- Epic, nation, and empire / Colin Graham -- In the mouths of the tribe / Mara Scanlon -- Bakhtin / E. San Juan Jr. -- Scriptible voice and the space of silence / Peter Hitchcock -- Silence, censorship, and the voices of Skaz in the fiction of James Kelman / J.C. Bittenbender -- Chronotopes of an impossible nationhood / Anthony Wall -- National allegory or carnivalesque