Abstract
Argues that Kay's acclaimed novel about a celebrated black jazz trumpeter, who is transgender, presents "an alternative construction of masculinity to the stereotypical Scottish 'hard man' of tartan noir, " dealing with "questions of identity that go beyond Scottishness," and unmasking "the emptiness of normative categories like gender, sexuality, ‘race’ and ethnic origins in a postmodern ... society."
Recommended Citation
Hologa, Marie
(2017)
"Jackie Kay, Trumpet (1998),"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 43:
Iss.
2, 198–199.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol43/iss2/11