Joseph H. Jackson

Writing Black Scotland (eBook, PDF)

Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474461467
• Artikelnr.: 72430790

Autorenporträt

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 University Press, 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.)

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
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 Hellscapes - Luke Sutherland's Jelly Roll
Chapter 5: Mad as a Nation - Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag
Conclusion: Anchoring in 2020
Index