Writing Black ScotlandPub Date : 2020-08-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0004
Joseph H. Jackson
{"title":"The Black Jacobeans: Jackie Kay’s Trumpet","authors":"Joseph H. Jackson","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 reads Jackie Kay’s influential novel Trumpet (1998) in the light of its historical moment: the aftermath of the 1997 referendum on a Scottish parliament and the post-Thatcher context of British neoliberal governance. Trumpet provides clear evidence of the way that Black writing is recuperated into a narrative of Britishness at a key moment for the Union, which the chapter illustrates via critical readings of Kay’s work by C. L. Innes, Alan Rice, and Peter Clandfield. Against the prevailing tendency to read Trumpet as an endorsement of a fluid and post-racial Britishness, the chapter argues for its Scottish national and Black political character, drawing out its relationship with British constitutional history and Black radicalism.","PeriodicalId":123180,"journal":{"name":"Writing Black Scotland","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123051528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Writing Black ScotlandPub Date : 2020-08-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0001
Joseph H. Jackson
{"title":"On Blackness and Makars: What is a Black Scotland?","authors":"Joseph H. Jackson","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction establishes the critical and historical basis for the idea of a Black Scotland, beginning with a brief history of Black life in territorial Scotland and in the ‘Scottish Empire’, both crucial to a post-imperial national consciousness. The introduction also reads selected examples of Blackness in Scottish literature and criticism, including some of the ways Black history has been analysed in comparison to Scottish culture. It outlines critical definitions of racialisation and of Blackness specifically: its discursive character and its relationship to the literary imagination. Defining ‘devolutionary’ as a distinct phase in the political and cultural history of Scotland, the introduction also establishes the evolving critical field of Black literary studies as it has emerged in post-war Britain, up to the multicultural moment of New Labour, and situates Scotland within and against that historical trajectory.","PeriodicalId":123180,"journal":{"name":"Writing Black Scotland","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116856454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Writing Black ScotlandPub Date : 2020-08-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0002
Joseph H. Jackson
{"title":"The Britishness of Black Britain","authors":"Joseph H. Jackson","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 argues that articulations of Black Britain, in general and specifically in literary terms, have been imbricated with state-led attempts to redefine Britain and the Union in the light of a new racially-defined diversity: ‘elaborated Britishness’. The chapter traces a shift in Black politics towards inclusion in the British national project, symbolised by Stuart Hall’s urging to ‘put the Black in the Union Jack’, and matched by government efforts to naturalise a new narrative of Britishness premised on inclusivity. This has a pronounced correlation in the institutional and disciplinary formation of Black British literature, and the chapter reads a number of prominent works in the field for their ‘British nationalist’ character. The chapter culminates in an examination of one of the most significant recent works of Black scholarship, Paul Gilroy’s Postcolonial Melancholia. Reflecting on its unconscious British national character from a Scottish critical perspective, the chapter argues for an approach to Blackness informed by sub-national formations in Britain.","PeriodicalId":123180,"journal":{"name":"Writing Black Scotland","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132733120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Writing Black ScotlandPub Date : 2020-08-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0003
Joseph H. Jackson
{"title":"‘You Got a White Voice’: Blackness in Devolutionary Scotland","authors":"Joseph H. Jackson","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2 tracks the emergence of Black writers and a visible Black politics across Scottish literature in the ‘devolutionary moment’ following the referendum of 1979. The chapter proceeds chronologically, beginning with Wilson Harris’s Black Marsden (1972) as a model of Black Scottish writing, before working through the intellectual and literary context of Blackness in Scotland in the period. This history provides a two-fold excavation in order to show the under-recognised importance of Blackness in late twentieth-century Scottish writing. The first is of the significant work, particularly poetry and plays, of early Black Scottish writers Maud Sulter and Jackie Kay; and their relationship to national Scotland. The second is the expanding consciousness of Blackness both domestically and globally in the work of other Scottish writers such as Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, and Irvine Welsh.","PeriodicalId":123180,"journal":{"name":"Writing Black Scotland","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125471048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Writing Black ScotlandPub Date : 2020-08-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0007
Joseph H. Jackson
{"title":"Conclusion: Anchoring in 2020","authors":"Joseph H. Jackson","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The conclusion of Writing Black Scotland addresses developments in the decade to 2020. It tracks the changing pattern in the publishing of Black writers, suggesting that the period after the 1997 referendum was a particular fertile and nationally ‘necessary’ point for such publishing. The conclusion reflects on the current state of Black writing in Scotland, noting its strong grassroots presence and the work of writers like Hannah Lavery, as well as acknowledging the role race played in the 2014 referendum on independence. Meanwhile, ongoing developments in ‘Black Britain’ such as celebratory accounts of the Markle-Windsor wedding and the Stormzy Glastonbury set, suggest that the practice of refurbishing Britishness via appeals to post-racial commonality remains an ongoing political strategy for the state. The book concludes with an observation about the complexity of Blackness as a formation in Scotland with reference to the respective work of Lavery and the Edinburgh band Young Fathers.","PeriodicalId":123180,"journal":{"name":"Writing Black Scotland","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116365371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Writing Black ScotlandPub Date : 2020-08-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0005
Joseph H. Jackson
{"title":"White Ethnographies: Luke Sutherland’s Jelly Roll","authors":"Joseph H. Jackson","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 4 focuses on the literary registration of racismánd anti-racism in Scotland in Luke Sutherland’s Jelly Roll (1998). Sutherland’s novel is strongly marked by intertextual links to Irvine Welsh, and Jelly Roll attempts to re-materialise Black experience in the post-Trainspotting era of Scottish writing. The novel represents a new interpretation of the ‘Scottish journey’ undertaken by Romantics and Orcadians alike, where the cartographic objective is to represent the racialised topography of Scotland, to map its whiteness, and to imagine it as a violent ‘new geography of racism’. Central to that representation is the interrogation of anti-racism in Scotland, dominated by contradiction, machismo, and bourgeois posing that thwarts an effective resistance to racism.","PeriodicalId":123180,"journal":{"name":"Writing Black Scotland","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134396095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Writing Black ScotlandPub Date : 2020-08-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0006
Joseph H. Jackson
{"title":"Mad as a Nation: Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag","authors":"Joseph H. Jackson","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461443.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 5 is centred on the continued entanglement in Scotland between categories of ‘Black’ and ‘Asian’. Psychoraag positions itself explicitly in the terrain of New Labour multiculturalist discourse, between the contradictory poles of post-racial ‘culturalism’ and the continuation of racialised inequality and racist abuse. In the novel, this contradiction provokes a literary ‘madness’, which is at once the psychopathology of race channelled through Frantz Fanon, and a counter-rational lyricism familiar from Michel Foucault, and aimed at the constraining ‘logic’ of British multicultural governmentality. Ultimately, Psychoraag testifies to the persistence of race and racism in opposition to a state-led narrative of resolved multiculturalism.","PeriodicalId":123180,"journal":{"name":"Writing Black Scotland","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132798075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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