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Kay, Jackie
Kay, Jackie (1961– ), Scottish poet, dramatist, and novelist, born in Edinburgh. Her first collection, The Adoption Papers (1991), introduces themes of racial and sexual identity, class, and Scottishness, which have remained central to Kay's writing. Other Lovers (1993) includes a sequence on blues singer Bessie Smith, of whom she has also written a biography. Her first novel, Trumpet (1998), employs various narrative perspectives to tell the story of a male jazz musician who is discovered, after his death, to have been a woman. Other works include Off Colour (poems, 1998) and Why Don't You Stop Talking? (short stories, 2002).
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Kay, Jackie." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Kay, Jackie." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-KayJackie.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Kay, Jackie." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-KayJackie.html |
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