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.

'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.

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