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Autore |
Jackson Joseph H. |
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Titolo |
Writing Black scotland : race, nation and the devolution of Black Britain / / Joseph H. Jackson [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2021 |
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ISBN |
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1-4744-9579-6 |
1-4744-6146-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 207 pages) |
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Collana |
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Engagements with modern Scottish culture |
Edinburgh scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Black authors - History and criticism |
English literature - Asian authors - History and criticism |
English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism |
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Black people in literature |
Asians in literature |
Black people - Scotland - Social conditions |
Asians - Scotland - Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2020. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'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, |
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