Writing Black Scotland: Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain

Joseph H. Jackson

Open Access Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

Writing Black Scotland

Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain

Joseph H. Jackson

In the series Engagements with Modern Scottish Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474461467

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A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing

New readings of contemporary Scottish writing with a particular focus on race and racism
A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing
Analysis of the implications of ‘black Scotland’ for the larger formation of ‘black Britain’

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Series Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
On Blackness and Makars: What is a Black Scotland? Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 The Britishness of Black Britain Open Access Download PDF	26
Chapter 2 ‘You Got a White Voice’: Blackness in Devolutionary Scotland Open Access Download PDF	55
Chapter 3 The Black Jacobeans: Jackie Kay’s Trumpet Open Access Download PDF	87
Chapter 4 White Ethnographies: Luke Sutherland’s Jelly Roll Open Access Download PDF	114
Chapter 5 Mad as a Nation: Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag Open Access Download PDF	144
Conclusion: Anchoring in 2020 Open Access Download PDF	173
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	188
Index Open Access Download PDF	201

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474461467