CONTEXT: Janice Galloway Reading Alasdair Gray: "Even within Scotland, a country you'd think would be keen to develop more democratic analytic discourse on account of its own marginalization within the British literary establishment, this persists. Due to the extent of internalized second-class nationhood in Scotland which presupposes Scottish artistic status and priorities as naturally lesser (as opposed to different) to those of the English canon, it can actually be worse. " Gee...sounds familiar, but where?