Reviews for The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature

The average rating for The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-03-10 00:00:00 Carlos Leyequien There is much to digest within this volume, but those who take the time to not only read, but listen and meditate over the words of Joy James, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Hortense Spillers, Angela Y. Davis, and the rest, will be taken into a discourse that works on two separate levels- one, which can be used to empower the reader, especially if that reader exists at the intersectionality of being both black and a woman, and two, if one is not at the intersectionality of being both black and a woman, the essays in this volume, including the historical documents that function as an appendix to this collection, highlight privileges that might otherwise be unrecognized by the reader, bringing this kind of reader closer to the truth that only can be experienced through black womanhood and its intersectionality with feminism.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-06-13 00:00:00 Robert Huckleberry The Preface to this 2000 collection, "in our estimation the following essays best reflect the literary, social, and political critiques that mark this area of feminism as singular, controversial, and trnasformative. The ten essays reprinted here were written during the last twenty-five years by intellectuals who address key themes within black feminisms: the intersections of sex, gender, and race, sometimes class and ideology."