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Writing Black Scotland: Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain
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| Title: | Writing Black Scotland: Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain/ Joseph H. Jackson |
| Title Note: | 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 |
| Language: | English |
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Engagements with Modern Scottish Culture
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| Notes: | In English |
| Item Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781474461467 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781474461467 |
| A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing New readings of contemporary Scottish writing with a particular focus on race and racismA critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writingAnalysis 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 |