James / Høgsbjerg Toussaint Louverture

The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9566-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten

Reihe: The C. L. R. James Archives

A new critical edition of Toussaint Louverture, the play written by the Trinidadian intellectual and activist C. L. R. James in 1934, performed at London's Westminster Theatre in 1936, and then presumed lost until its rediscovery in 2005.

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, C. L. R.

Høgsbjerg, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Laurent Dubois vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction / Christian Høgsbjerg 1

Editorial Note / Christian Høgsbjerg 41

Author's Note (1936) / C. L. R. James 45

Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History

The Complete Playscript (1934) 47

Act II, Scene I, of Toussaint Louverture (1936) 135

The Production and Performance of Toussaint Louverture

Notices 155

The Programme (1936) 160

Reviews 164

Appendix

"The Intelligence of the Negro" / C. L. R. James 189

"A Century of Freedom" / C. L. R. James 199

"Slavery Today: A Shocking Exposure" / C. L. R. James 206

"I Want Negro Culture" / Paul Robeson 212

"'Civilising' the 'Blacks': Why Britain Needs to Maintain Her African Possessions" / C. L. R. James 214

Letter from George Padmore to Dr. Alain Locke 217

["The Maverick Club"] / C. L. R. James 218

"A Unique Personality" / C. L. R. James 219

"Paul Robeson" / C. L. R. James 221

Über Autor(innen)

C. L. R. James (1901–89) was a Trinidadian historian, novelist, activist, and cultural and political critic. He wrote many books, including a seminal cultural study of cricket, Beyond a Boundary, which is also published by Duke University Press.Christian Høgsbjerg is a historian who lectures at Leeds Metropolitan University.