The Red Cockatoo is the first full length study of the work of James Kelman to take full cognisance of the author's political commitments and activism throughout his career. This book is published in partnership with The Drouth Magazine and traces the history and details of Kelman's political writing and activism. Besides numerous novels Kelman has published two volumes of literary, social, historical and political criticism. He has also been unceasingly involved in political and human rights campaigns, manifestoes and demonstrations throughout his life. What exactly are Kelman's politics: why are some readers still baffled and shocked by his standpoint? His stance on social and political issues has been widely criticised not only by ordinary readers, but by the Establishment in the form of Booker Prize judges, and others.
The Red Cockatoo: James Kelman and the art of commitment
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It will rigorously strengthen Scottish self-understanding, will be a bracing challenge to diffident academic dissmissals of Kelman s politics, and will render recent developments in Scottish culture that bit more exciting and edgy. --Simon Kovesi, author of the monograph James Kelman, MUP
Apart from his own essays, Kelman s political activism has never been recorded in this focused and textured way. Rich in personal and incidental detail, at its best The Red Cockatoo is a valuable document of a crucial area of Kelman s life and work. Miller s illustrations, which adopt the objective visual language of flowcharts and exploded diagrams to capture Kelman s action and alliances, are a triumph. The factual aura of these images is both ironised and energised by the ragged, restless, personal quality of the freehand lines and lettering, an effect strongly reminiscent of Kelman s fiction. --Scott Hames, The Scotsman
Apart from his own essays, Kelman s political activism has never been recorded in this focused and textured way. Rich in personal and incidental detail, at its best The Red Cockatoo is a valuable document of a crucial area of Kelman s life and work. Miller s illustrations, which adopt the objective visual language of flowcharts and exploded diagrams to capture Kelman s action and alliances, are a triumph. The factual aura of these images is both ironised and energised by the ragged, restless, personal quality of the freehand lines and lettering, an effect strongly reminiscent of Kelman s fiction. --Scott Hames, The Scotsman
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Mitch Mitcher and Johnny Rodger are currently co-operating on a project to make a documentary film from 13 hours footage shot at Kelman s 1990 conference Self determination and Power , where Noam Chomsky was the main speaker. This book was written with the help of exclusive access the authors had to that footage, and it attempts to create a map of the difficult territory of Kelman s career as an engaged artist.
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The Self Determination and Power Conference organised by James Kelman in Glasgow's Pearce Institute in 1990 appears in the fabric of Scottish and British political history almost at the level of myth. The attendance of Noam Chomsky assured a level of attention which James Kelman and the other participants surely deserved in their own rights. A film was made at the time which has been discovered and analysed by the authors, who also discuss the debates themselves and their effects on the developing thinking of the Left. As revealing is their recounting of, what might be called, 'the rest' of James Kelman's activism, that is his activism beyond writing. The Red Cockatoo is an indispensable guide for James Kelman's many readers, the many people he has helped and influenced, and for all of those for whom socialist politics represents direction. With stills taken from the film, and some very interesting visuals from author Mitch Miller, this book is a grand addition to Kelman studies and will be fascinating to the general reader. Fickle Man: Robert Burns in the 21st Century (Non-Fiction) Kieron Smith, boy Busconductor HinesHow Late It Was How Late
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