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.

About the Author
Joseph H. Jackson, Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary English Literature, University of Nottingham.


Book Information
ISBN 9781474461450
Author Joseph H. Jackson
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press