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

By Joseph H. Jackson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147446145X
• ISBN13: 9781474461450
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"