The Black Jacobins Reader

Author: Forsdick, Charles; Høgsbjerg, Christian
Publisher: Duke University Press
Serie: The C. L. R. James Archives
ISBN: 9780822361848
eISBN Pdf: 9780822373940
Place of publication: Durham , United States
Year of digital publication: 2017
Month: January
Pages: 424
Language: English

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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

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Contents
Foreword
Haiti
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rethinking The Black Jacobins
Part I. Personal Reflections
- 1. The Black Jacobins in Detroit: 1963
- 2. The Impact of C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins
- 3. C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins, and The Making of Haiti
- 4. The Black Jacobins, Education, and Redemption
- 5. The Black Jacobins, Past and Present
Part II. The Haitian Revolution: Histories and Philosophies
- 6. Reading The Black Jacobins: Historical Perspectives
- 7. Haiti and Historical Time
- 8. The Theory of Haiti: The Black Jacobins and the Poetics of Universal History
- 9. Fragments of a Universal History: Global Capital, Mass Revolution, and the Idea of Equality in The Black Jacobins
- 10. “We Are Slaves and Slaves Believe in Freedom”: The Problematizing of Revolutionary Emancipationism in The Black Jacobins
- 11. “To Place Ourselves in History”: The Haitian Revolution in British West Indian Thought before The Black Jacobins
Part III. The Black Jacobins: Texts and Contexts
- 12. The Black Jacobins and the Long Haitian Revolution: Archives, History, and the Writing of Revolution
- 13. Refiguring Resistance: Historiography, Fiction, and the Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture
- 14. On “Both Sides” of the Haitian Revolution? Rethinking Direct Democracy and National Liberation in The Black Jacobins
- 15. The Black Jacobins: A Revolutionary Study of Revolution, and of a Caribbean Revolution
- 16. Making Drama out of the Haitian Revolution from Below: C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins Play
- 17. “On the Wings of Atalanta”
Part IV. Final Reflections
- 18. Afterword to The Black Jacobins’s Italian Edition
- 19. Introduction to the Cuban Edition of The Black Jacobins
Appendix 1. C. L. R. James and Studs Terkel Discuss The Black Jacobins on WFMT Radio (Chicago), 1970
Appendix 2. The Revolution in Theory
Appendix 3. Translator’s Foreword by Pierre Naville to the 1949 / 1983 French Editions
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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