JOE JACKSON Joe.Jackson@nottingham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Writing Black Scotland
Jackson, Joe
Authors
Abstract
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.
Citation
Jackson, J. (2020). Writing Black Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Book Type | Authored Book |
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Online Publication Date | Dec 31, 2020 |
Publication Date | Dec 31, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Dec 19, 2020 |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
ISBN | 9781474461443 |
Keywords | Black Britain, Contemporary Scottish Literature, Devolution, Multiculturalism, Postcolonialism, Scotland |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4569111 |
Publisher URL | https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-writing-black-scotland.html |
Contract Date | Apr 30, 2020 |
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