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

• Superior document: Engagements with modern Scottish culture
• VerfasserIn: Jackson, Joseph H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Engagements with modern Scottish culture.; Edinburgh scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 207 pages).
• Notes: Previously issued in print: 2020.
• Other title: 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
• Audience: Specialized.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1474495796; 1474461468
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joseph H. Jackson.

'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.