Format:
1 online resource (xxiv, 438 pages)
ISBN:
9780822373940
,
0822373947
Series Statement:
The C.L.R. James Archives
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822361848
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780822361848
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1215/9780822373940
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822373940?locatt=mode:legacy
Author information:
Forsdick, Charles 1969-
