Jackie Kay : Critical Essays (Hardcover)

Foreword: Full Fig - Jackie Kay; Introduction - Tasha Alden and Fiona Tolan; 1. Opening Out: Jackie Kay’s Many Voices - Nancy K. Gish; 2. From Great White Mothers to Black Sisters: Jackie Kay, Feminism and the 1980s -Fiona Tolan; 3. “The Presence that Absence Makes”: the Aesthetic of the Secret in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet - C.J. Griffin; 4. Stacy Ann Creech and Karen Sands-O’Connor, ‘“My Face is a Map”: Place, Truth, and Belonging in Jackie Kay’s Children’s Books’; 5. Liminality and Intimacy in Jackie Kay’s Wish I Was Here - Ana Garcia-Soriano; 6. Diversifying Modes of National Identity in Jackie Kay’s Fiere - Tara Brusselaers and Elisabeth Bekers; 7. A Museum of Voices: Ekphrastic Encounters in the Poetry of Jackie Kay - Lourdes Lopez-Ropero; 8. Jackie Kay’s Monumental Poetics - Deirdre Osborne; 9. The Romance of Scottish Communism: Politics and the Family in Jackie Kay’s May Day’ - Peter Ely; Index