... In this section, Charles Forsdick focuses on the ways (1) in historiography, but more notably in a range of other cultural representations, the legacies of the Haitian Revolution have been personified, singularized, and associated with individual leaders (most notably Toussaint Louverture...

... Toussaint Louverture Haitian Revolution The Black Jacobins History ...

... The Black Jacobins C. L. R. James Toussaint Louverture Education Organization ...

... The Black Jacobins C. L. R. James Toussaint Louverture Education Organization ...

... The Black Jacobins C. L. R. James Anticolonialism Toussaint Louverture Leadership Class ...

... The Black Jacobins Toussaint Louvertur e C. L. R. Jame s, Literatur e Translation ...

... the most impressive historical individual of African descent. Exposure to James’s work leads to recognition of the importance of Toussaint Louverture. Shoatz’s discussion underlines the way in which The Black Jacobins acts as an educational and organizing tool. The author concludes by suggesting...

..., and associated with individual leaders (most notably Toussaint Louverture); and (2) in these representations, accounts of popular resistance have been to a greater or lesser extent downplayed and obscured. Associated with this reliance on revolutionary heroism is a questioning of the extent to which an emphasis...

..., and Redemption” describes the impact of James’s history on debates regarding the most impressive historical individual of African descent. Exposure to James’s work leads to recognition of the importance of Toussaint Louverture. Shoatz’s discussion underlines the way in which The Black Jacobins acts...

... with The Black Jacobins and the way that the text has sustained an enduring fascination with Toussaint Louverture. The author discusses the Marxist historiography at the heart of the text, and also James’s indebtedness to English literature. His conclusions explore the continued resonance of James’s central...

... historical individual of African descent. Exposure to James’s work leads to recognition of the importance of Toussaint Louverture. Shoatz’s discussion underlines the way in which The Black Jacobins acts as an educational and organizing tool. The author concludes by suggesting that the book continues...

... for Martinique, which he hoped to transform into an autonomous region of a new federal republic. The chapter argues that Césaire’s federalism was mediated by the legacy of Toussaint Louverture’s 1801 constitution for Saint-Domingue. Suggesting that Toussaint addressed a future that had not yet arrived...

... In this chapter, Rachel Douglas explores James’s dramatic representations of the Haitian Revolution from Toussaint Louverture in 1936 to The Black Jacobins play of 1967. Making drama out of history enabled James to go furthest in rewriting the Haitian Revolution from below, through...