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Stories and survival’: An Interview with Jackie Kay Wasafiri Volume 25, Issue 4, 2010 pages 19-22 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2010.510366 Maggie Gee Jackie Kay has had a glittering career as a writer of poetry, fiction and drama for both adults and children. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian…
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“Speaking from the Margins: The Voice of the ‘Other’ in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay” studies Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay as poets who identify and represent some key forms of “otherness” may take in the British society of the 1980s and the 1990s.
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Soul Search The Post Cork, Ireland 2010-09-05 Nadine O’Regan When poet and novelist Jackie Kay started the search for her birth parents, she didn’t realise how traumatic a journey it would be, though she doesn’t regret doing it. Jackie Kay met her birth father for the first time in a hotel room in Abuja, Nigeria,…
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“What is In My Blood?”: Contemporary Black Scottishness and the Work of Jackie Kay [Book Chapter] Literature and Racial Ambiguity Rodopi B.V. 2002-09-15 328 pages ISBN-10: 9042014180 ISBN-13: 978-9042014183 pp. 1-25(25) edited by Teresa Hubal and Neil Brooks Peter Clandfield, Assistant Professor of English Studies Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada The work of the…
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Jackie Kay – Red Dust Road Launch Night Glasgow Women’s Library 81 Parnie Street, Glasgow, Scotland Wednesday 2010-06-23, 19:00 BST Red Dust Road Exclusive Launch Jackie Kay is known and loved for her fiction – a novel, and short stories -, for her poetry and her plays. In this revelatory and redemptive book, with characteristic…
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Borders Book Festival: Where Words Come Alive—Jackie Kay Harmony Marquee Melrose, Scotland 2010-06-20, 20:30 BST (Local Time) Published only days before the festival, Red Dust Road is Jackie Kay’s autobiographical journey. Adopted by warm-spirited Scottish communists, Jackie has never thought of anyone else as her ‘real’ parents, but meeting her birth father and mother was…
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‘What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn’t make it up.’
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Jackie Kay’s Representation of ‘The Broons’: Scotland’s Happy Family eSharp Special Issue: Spinning Scotland: Exploring Literary and Cultural Perspectives (2009) pages 109-143 ISSN: 1742-4542 Mª del Coral Calvo Maturana Universidad de Granada This paper focuses on the contemporary Scottish poet Jackie Kay and the comic strip ‘The Broons’ by studying Jackie Kay’s representation of this…
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The Poet as Cultural Dentist: Ethnicity in the Poetry of Jackie Kay Theory and Practice in English Studies 4 (2005) Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita pages 63-67 Pavlína Hácová, Philosophical Faculty Palacky University, Olomouc The acclaimed British poet Jackie Kay (born 1961) belongs to the colourful…
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Jackie Kay (Review of Darling) Aesthetica Magazine Issue 19 (2007-10-01) page 10 Rachel Hazelwood Jackie Kay is one of the most prolific and insightful poets currently writing in the UK today. At a time when too many people frequently describe the form as being “in decline” and thought of as an “exclusive club”, Kay writes…