The Poetry of Civic Nationalism: Jackie Kay’s ‘Bronze Head From Ife’

This article examines the work of the newly-minted Scots makar, Jackie Kay, charting her development as a black Scottish writer committed to the interrogation of identity categories. McFarlane focuses in particular on ‘Bronze Head from Ife’, a poem in Kay’s most recent collection Fiere (2012), and e...

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Main Author: Anna McFarlane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2017-03-01
Series:C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
Online Access:https://c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/530/