The Forsdick, Charles editor. Høgsbjerg, Christian editor. text bibliography ncu Durham London Duke University Press [2017] 2017 monographic eng

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xxiv, 438 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 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. 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. Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg, editors. Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-410) and index. nwht--- James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert) 1901-1989 Toussaint Louverture 1743-1803 Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804 Toussaint, Louverture Pierre Dominique 1743-1803 Biografías Revolucionarios Haití Biografías Generales Haití Biografías Haití Historia Revolución, 1791-1804 110 F 1923 B627 2017 972.94 Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 (DLC) 2016031242 9780822361848 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780822362012 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2016030242 NcD/DLC 160701 20230410101638.0 126640 eng