Writing Black Scotland

Jackson, Joe

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.

• Book Type: Authored Book
• Acceptance Date: Apr 30, 2020
• 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