The Black Jacobins reader / Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forsdick, Charles, editor.

Høgsbjerg, Christian, editor.

Series:

C.L.R. James Archives (Series)

The C.L.R. James Archives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989. Black Jacobins.

James, C. L. R.

Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803.

Toussaint Louverture.

Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804.

Haiti.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution. In addition to considering the book's literary qualities and its role in James's emergence as a writer and thinker, the contributors discuss its production, context, and 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 transcript of James's 1970 interview with Studs Terkel. Contributors. Mumia Abu-Jamal, David Austin, Madison Smartt Bell, Anthony Bogues, John H. Bracey Jr., Rachel Douglas, Laurent Dubois, Claudius K. Fergus, Carolyn E. Fick, Charles Forsdick, Dan Georgakas, Robert A. Hill, Christian Høgsbjerg, Selma James, Pierre Naville, Nick Nesbitt, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Matthew Quest, David M. Rudder, Bill Schwarz, David Scott, Russell Maroon Shoatz, Matthew J. Smith, Studs Terkel

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822373940

0822373947

OCLC:

1139384997