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Record Nr.

UNISA996465256603316

Autore

Jackson Joseph H.

Titolo

Writing Black scotland : race, nation and the devolution of Black Britain / / Joseph H. Jackson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-4744-9579-6

1-4744-6146-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 207 pages)

Collana

Engagements with modern Scottish culture

Edinburgh scholarship online

Disciplina

820.9896041

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

'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.