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Black Britain
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contemporary Scottish literature
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devolution
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Product details
- ISBN 9781474461443
- Weight: 468g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
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.)
