Writing Black Scotland : race, nation and the devolution of Black Britain

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. Critiquin...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jackson, Joseph H., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2020]
Series:Engagements.
Subjects:
English literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Blacks > Scotland > Social conditions.
Blacks in literature.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Scottish authors > History and criticism.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009749602206719
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

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