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Scottish extractions. 'Race' and racism in devolutionary fiction
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Macdonald, Graeme (2010) Scottish extractions. 'Race' and racism in devolutionary fiction. Orbis Litterarum, 65 (2). pp. 79-107. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0730.2009.00977.x ISSN 0105-7510.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0730.2009.00977.x
Abstract
Underpinning my analysis are a number of issues at the heart of debates over 'devolutionary' identities. I question whether the novels discussed register a collapse of Britishness in a period when the coherence of 'British' fiction becomes increasingly unstable. The stability of 'black British' as a unitary cultural term after devolution is also questioned in relation to the emergence of 'black Scottish' literature. Relative to this is the issue of how the protagonists of these novels situate themselves in relation to debates surrounding Scotland's settled ethnic heritage. I argue that contemporary Scottish novels instigate a focus on relatively suppressed Scottish patterns of race and racism and that they challenge the manner in which Scottish identity is predominantly figured in terms of ethnicity. In conclusion, my overview suggests that these novels are far from being myopic in their Scottish focus and that the dislocated Scottish characters gesture to a greater international understanding of the manner in which globalised conditions are permanently entangled with localised forms of exclusion and extraction. A devolved literature is also an internationally engaged one. Its bilateral focus, I suggest, configures the alignment of Scottish racial issues with devolutionary matters in the UK and global realignments in class and cultural geographies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Orbis Litterarum | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||
ISSN: | 0105-7510 | ||||
Official Date: | April 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | 65 | ||||
Number: | 2 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 29 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 79-107 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1600-0730.2009.00977.x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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