Writing Black Scotland

Joseph Jackson is Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary English Literature, Faculty of Arts. His publications include English Brother or No? British State-National Critiques and the Moment of Pressure, in: Malchi McIntosh, ed., Re-reading Sam Selvon. Kingston: Ian Randle. (In Press), Joseph H. Jackson and I. Gramaglia, 2012. The Broad Breast of the Land: Indo-Caribbean Eco-Feminism and Mahadai Das. In: Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai, eds., Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature, (New York: Routledge), Captain Thistlewood’s Jacobite: Reading the Caribbean in Scotland’s Historiography of Slavery in Michael Gardiner, Graeme Macdonald and Niall O'gallagher, eds., Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Lutchmee and Dilloo, Caribbean Classics (Georgetown: Caribbean Press) and A Bird Is Not A Stone - Palestinian Poetry in Scottish Translation: An Interview with Henry Bell and Sarah Irving. Scottish Literary Review (In Press.)

• AcknowledgementsOn Blackness and Makars: What is a Black Scotland?Chapter 1: The Britishness of Black BritainChapter 2: ‘You Got a White Voice’ – Blackness in Devolutionary ScotlandChapter 3: The Black Jacobeans – Jackie Kay’s TrumpetChapter 4: White Hellscapes – Luke Sutherland’s Jelly RollChapter 5: Mad as a Nation – Suhayl Saadi’s PsychoraagConclusion: Anchoring in 2020Index

Writing Black Scotland is a most needed intervention into twenty-first century understanding of Scottish literature through time, raising questions about ‘otherness’ and ‘othering’ as well as purposive colonialism, subjugation and exploitation. The book is lucid, compassionate, discriminating and admirably sensitive to discrete historical moments, illuminating and engaged at every level.