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ISBN-10: 1478004878
ISBN-13: 9781478004875
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 09/27/2019
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.00" W, 0.60" H

Making The Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and the Drama of History

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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.

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"Among Rachel Douglas's great accomplishments is her analysis of The Black Jacobins as the keystone in the larger arc of C. L. R. James's complex and ever-evolving Marxism, taking seriously his own estimation of his intellectual accomplishments. Her extraordinary book makes a pivotal contribution to our understanding of James's masterpiece and is essential reading for all those engaged with understanding the Haitian Revolution and the decisive place of The Black Jacobins in its interpretation."–Nick Nesbitt, author of "Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant"
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ISBN-10: 1478004878
ISBN-13: 9781478004875
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 09/27/2019
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.00" W, 0.60" H
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