Writing Black Scotland Race, Nation and the Devolution 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jackson, Joseph H. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[sine loco] : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
Subjects:	Literature > History and criticism. Littérature > Histoire et critique. Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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