Forsdick / Høgsbjerg The Black Jacobins Reader

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7394-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

Reihe: The C. L. R. James Archives

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Forsdick, Charles

Høgsbjerg, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Robert A. Hill xiii
Haiti / David M. Rudder xxi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction: Rethinking The Black Jacobins / Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg 1
Part I. Personal Reflection
1. The Black Jacobins in Detroit: 1963 / Dan Georgakas 55
2. The Impact of C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins / Mumia Abu-Jamal 58
3. C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins, and The Making of Haiti / Carolyn E. Fick 60
4. The Black Jacobins, Education, and Redemption / Russell Maroon Shoatz 70
5. The Black Jacobins, Past and Present / Selma James 73
Part II. The Haitian Revolution: Histories and Philosophies
6. Reading The Black Jacobins: Historical Perspectives / Laurent Dubois 87
7. Haiti and Historical Time / Bill Schwarz 93
8. The Theory of Haiti: The Black Jacobins and the Poetics of Universal History / David Scott 115
9. Fragments of a Universal History: Global Capital, Mass Revolution, and the Idea of Equality in The Black Jacobins / Nick Nesbitt 139
10. "We Are Slaves and Slaves Believe in Freedom": The Problematizing of Revolutionary Emancipation in The Black Jacobins / Claudius Fergus 162
11. "To Place Ourselves in History": The Haitian Revolution in British West Indies Thought before The Black Jacobins / Matthew J. Smith 178
Part III. The Black Jacobins: Texts and Contexts
12. The Black Jacobins and the Long Haitian Revolution: Archives, History, and the Writing of Revolution / Anthony Bogues 197
13. Refiguring Resistance: Historiography, Fiction, and the Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture / Charles Forsdick 215
14. On "Both Sides" of the Haitian Revolution? Rethinking Direct Democracy and National Liberation in The Black Jacobins / Matthew Quest 235
15. The Black Jacobins: A Revolutionary Study of Revolution, and of a Caribbean Revolution / David Austin 256
16. Making Drama our of the Haitian Revolution from Below: C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins Play / Rachel Douglas 278
17. "On the Wings of Atalanta" / Aldon Lynn Nielsen 297
Part IV. Final Reflections
18. Afterword to The Black Jacobins's Italian Edition / Madison Smartt Bell 313
19. Introduction to the Cuban Edition of The Black Jacobins / John H. Bracey 322
Appendix 1. C. L. R. James and Studs Terkel Discuss The Black Jacobins on WFMT Radion (Chicago), 1970 329
Appendix 2. The Revolution in Theory / C. L. R. James 353
Appendix 3. Translator's Foreword by Pierre Naville to the 1949 / 1983 French Editions 367
Bibliography 383
Contributors 411
Index 415

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool.

Christian Høgsbjerg is Teaching Fellow in Caribbean History at University College London's Institute of the Americas.

Robert A. Hill is Research Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.