| Series |
The C.L.R. James Archives
C.L.R. James Archives (Series) ^A1154868
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| Contents |
Introduction: rethinking The Black Jacobins / Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg -- The Black Jacobins in Detroit: 1963 / Dan Georgakas -- The impact of C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins / Mumia Abu-Jamal -- C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, and the making of Haiti / Carolyn E. Fick -- The Black Jacobins, education, and redemption / Russell Maroon Shoatz -- The Black Jacobins, past and present / Selma James -- Reading The Black Jacobins: historical perspectives / Laurent Dubois -- Haiti and historical time / Bill Schwarz -- The theory of Haiti: The Black Jacobins and the poetics of universal history -- David Scott -- Fragments of a universal history: global capital, mass revolution, and the idea of equality in the Black Jacobins / Nick Nesbitt -- "We are slaves and slaves believe in freedom" : the problematizing of revolutionary emancipationism in the Black Jacobins / Claudius Fergus -- "To place ourselves in history" : the Haitian revolution in British West Indian thought before The Black Jacobins / Matthew J. Smith -- The Black Jacobins and the long Haitian revolution : archives, history, and the writing of revolution / Anthony Bogues -- Refiguring resistance: historiography, fiction, and the afterlives of Toussaint Louverture / Charles Forsdick -- On "both sides" of the Haitian revolution? : rethinking direct democracy and national liberation in The Black Jacobins / Matthew Quest -- The Black Jacobins : a revolutionary study of revolution, and of a Caribbean revolution / David Austin -- Making drama out of the Haitian revolution from below : C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins Play -- Rachel Douglas -- "On the wings of Atalanta" / Aldon Lynn Nielsen -- Afterword to The Black Jacobins' Italian edition / Madison Smartt Bell -- Introduction to the Cuban edition of The Black Jacobins / John H. Bracey -- Appendix 1. C.L.R. James and Studs Terkel discuss The Black Jacobins on WFMT radio (chicago), 1970 -- Appendix 2. The revolution in theory / C.L.R. James -- Appendix 3. Translator's foreword by Pierre Naville to the 1949/1983 French editions. |
| Abstract |
"The Black Jacobins, with its unforgettable story of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian revolution, is one of the great books of the twentieth century. Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James' classic history. In addition to considering the book's literary qualities and its role in James' emergence as a writer and thinker, the contributors discuss its production, context, and its enduring importance in relation to debates about decolonization, globalization, postcolonialism, and the emergence of neocolonial modernity. The Reader also includes the reflections of activists and novelists on the book's influence and a transcription of James' 1970 interview with Studs Terkel." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-410) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Black Jacobins reader Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 9780822373940 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2016030242 |
| ISBN | 9780822361848 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822361841 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822362012 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822362015 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
