Writing Black Scotland Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain

• Tác giả: Joseph H Jackson
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1474461443
• ISBN-13: 978-1474461474
• Thông tin xuất bản: Edinburgh University Press, 2020
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 345178
• Chủ đề: 1. Literature: history & criticism

Tóm tắt

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.