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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: C.L.R. James Archives (Series)Publication details: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2017]Description: xxiv, 438 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780822361848 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780822362012 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Black Jacobins readerDDC classification:
  • 972.94
LOC classification:
  • 110 F 1923 B627 2017
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.
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.
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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 110 F 1923 B627 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000119558

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-410) and index.

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.

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.

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