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

A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing

• New readings of contemporary Scottish writing with a particular focus on race and racism
• A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing
• Analysis of the implications of ‘black Scotland’ for the larger formation of ‘black Britain’

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.