Writing Black Scotland: Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain
A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing
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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Writing Black Scotland: Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain
A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing
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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Writing Black Scotland: Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain

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

by Joseph H. Jackson
Writing Black Scotland: Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain

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

by Joseph H. Jackson

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A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing
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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474461450
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 08/25/2022
Series: Engagements with Modern Scottish Culture
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Joseph Jackson is Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary English Literature, Faculty of Arts. His publications include English Brother or No? British State-National Critiques and the Moment of Pressure, in: Malchi McIntosh, ed., Re-reading Sam Selvon. Kingston: Ian Randle. (In Press), Joseph H. Jackson and I. Gramaglia, 2012. The Broad Breast of the Land: Indo-Caribbean Eco-Feminism and Mahadai Das. In: Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai, eds., Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature, (New York: Routledge), Captain Thistlewood’s Jacobite: Reading the Caribbean in Scotland’s Historiography of Slavery in Michael Gardiner, Graeme Macdonald and Niall O'gallagher, eds., Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2010), Lutchmee and Dilloo, Caribbean Classics (Georgetown: Caribbean Press) and A Bird Is Not A Stone - Palestinian Poetry in Scottish Translation: An Interview with Henry Bell and Sarah Irving. Scottish Literary Review (In Press.)

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsOn Blackness and Makars: What is a Black Scotland?

Chapter 1: The Britishness of Black BritainChapter 2: ‘You Got a White Voice’ – Blackness in Devolutionary ScotlandChapter 3: The Black Jacobeans – Jackie Kay’s TrumpetChapter 4: White Hellscapes – Luke Sutherland’s Jelly RollChapter 5: Mad as a Nation – Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag

Conclusion: Anchoring in 2020Index

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