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T1 A Scottish Metamorphosis: Jackie Kay's Trumpet
A1 Monterrey, Tomás
AB As an adopted, black, lesbian, Scottish, poet, Jackie Kay’s uncommonpersonal particulars have been the main source of inspiration forher literary career. In her first novel, Trumpet, awarded with the 1998Guardian fiction prize, Kay raises issues concerning the racial, sexual,social and national construction of an identity, as jazz-trumpeter JossMoody’s adopted son, Colman, tries to cope with the shocking postmortemrevelation that his father was in fact a woman. The novelisticaccount of Joss Moody is based on the real story of the American jazzpianist Billy Tipton. Kay transfers Tipton’s story to a Scottish context,changing in the process the racial colour of the musician, and addingautobiographical elements related with race, sexuality and Scottishness.Joss Moody and Colman are the two main characters through whomKay explores her own unconventional profile. This paper aims at analysingJackie Kay’s fictional articulation of her own specificity in connectionwith Scottish subjects. The notion of hybridity and issues relevantin deconstruction and queer theory have been used in the discussion.In Trumpet, Kay celebrates the creative energy of hybridity, andtherefore, suggests a revision of Scottishness, based not on fixed abstractcategories or stereotypes, but on personal experience and actualresponse.
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