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Writing Black Scotland : race, nation and the devolution of Black Britain / Joseph H. Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Joseph H., author.
- Series:
- Engagements.
- Engagements
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Black people--Scotland--Social conditions.
- Black people.
- Black people in literature.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 207 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 'Writing Black Scotland' examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of Blackness. The book reads Blackness in Scottish writing from the 1970s to the early 2000s, a period of history defined by post-imperial adjustment. Critiquing a unifying Britishness at work in Black British criticism, Jackson argues for the importance of Black politics in Scottish writing, and for a literary registration of race and racism which signals a necessary negotiation for national Scotland both before and after 1997.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- On Blackness and Makars: What is a Black Scotland?
- Chapter 1 The Britishness of Black Britain
- Chapter 2 ‘You Got a White Voice’: Blackness in Devolutionary Scotland
- Chapter 3 The Black Jacobeans: Jackie Kay’s Trumpet
- Chapter 4 White Ethnographies: Luke Sutherland’s Jelly Roll
- Chapter 5 Mad as a Nation: Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag
- Conclusion: Anchoring in 2020
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 26, 2021).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781474495790
- 1474495796
- 9781474461467
- 1474461468
- OCLC:
- 1312726818
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