Making The Black Jacobins

C. L. R. James and the Drama of History

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ID19912975
AuthorsR Douglas (0000-0002-5552-697X, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages320
Publication date2020-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMaking the Black Jacobins (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781478005308
OpenAlexW2909633918
Open LibraryOL29841863M
ISBN9781478005308
LanguageEN
Citations received2

C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins remains one of the great works of the twentieth century and the cornerstone of Haitian revolutionary studies. In Making The Black Jacobins, Rachel Douglas traces the genesis, transformation, and afterlives of James's landmark work across the decades from the 1930s on. Examining the 1938 and 1963 editions of The Black Jacobins, the 1967 play of the same name, and James's 1936 play, Toussaint Louverture-as well as manuscripts, notes, interviews, and other texts-Douglas shows how James continuously rewrote and revised his history of the Haitian Revolution as his politics and engagement with Marxism evolved. She also points to the vital significance theater played in James's work and how it influenced his views of history. Douglas shows The Black Jacobins to be a palimpsest, its successive layers of rewriting renewing its call to new generations

Art · Drama · Literature · Political science · History · Irish and British Studies · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Race, History, and American Society · 1901-1989 · Black Jacobins (James, C.L.R.) · Caribbean Studies · Criticism and interpretation · Cultural studies · Haiti · James, c. l. r. (cyril lionel robert) · Postcolonial and colonial studies · Revolution (Haiti : 1791-1804) fast (OCoLC)fst01354524 · Toussaint louverture, 1743?-1803

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