... to caution that it is always important to ask about the ideological construction of the theory-problems in our scholarship. The essay then turns to a discussion of the problem-space that makes intelligible why and how C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins is constructed as an exploration of the Haitian...

...Raj Chetty This essay approaches the stage versions of Toussaint Louverture (1934) and The Black Jacobins (1967), first, to emphasize the role of C. L. R. James’s collaborations in the creation of the plays, and second, to argue that the latter version of the play presents a radical feminism...

... their part in the shaping of James's majestic The Black Jacobins . © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 “A Thorn in the Side of Great Britain”: C. L. R. James and the Caribbean Labour Rebellions of the 1930s Christian Høgsbjerg Robert A. Hill once suggested that C. L. R. James’s The Black...

... something significant about Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit stands or falls on his knowledge of the Haitian Revolution; and the second concerns her curious reading of C.L.R. James' T he Black Jacobins , as mainly “information,” rather than itself an attempt to theorize the Haitian Revolution as universal...

...Nick Nesbitt This essay argues that Aimé Césaire remained committed to a nonaligned, tricontinental Marxism well beyond his resignation from the Parti Communiste Français in 1956. It describes this commitment positively in relation to “black Jacobinism” as well as the limitations of Césaire's...

... World in Atlanta, through which many Caribbean intellectuals passed and spoke and exchanged ideas on their formations and their projects. Memorably, C. L. R. James’s lectures on The Black Jacobins were delivered there in the summer of 1971.1 It seems to me that this is just one...

... reparations as a framework for thinking can move us in that direction. Two of the earliest classics of Caribbean history—Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery and C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins —were designed as antidotes to European notions of legitimacy and governance. 5 Williams...

... in the novel’s structure is unexpected because it breaks into the larger narrative. I fi rst came across it not in Lamming’s novel but in a radically diff erent context: in the 1963 appendix to C. L. R. James’s Th e Black Jacobins.³ I have always been aff ected by James’s afterword...

...,” Kamugisha usefully outlines “three broad trends” in Caribbean writing (6), the first being something of a canon in Caribbean critical thought, from The Black Jacobins (C. L. R. James) to Peau noire, masques blancs (Fanon), from Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth...

... and historically layered and extends far beyond the linguistic. The richness of the translational as a tool of analysis in a Caribbean frame became particularly apparent to me in a very different Haiti-focused example, in ongoing work on C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins . 26 Susan Gillman alludes...

... HHayesayes black intellectuals, one cannot sidestep the provocative proposition that C. L. R. James EEdwardsdwards makes most categorically in the appendix to Th e Black Jacobins: “Th e fi rst step to free- dom was to go abroad I consider this to pose a question, rather than to set the only possible...

..., since he was acutely aware that between 1791 and 1804 a revolutionary ideal had entered the New World and that the Caribbean had become one of those explosive borders of enlightened modernity. As James vividly reminds us in Black Jacobins, the Haitian Revolution would take the French Revolution...

... of capitalism, and Coretta Scott King described her husband as the first black socialist she had ever met. 36 Intriguingly, King also met C. L. R. and Selma James in London, and based on his correspondence with the former, he seems to have read The Black Jacobins . 37 Malcom X read James’s 1948...

... the Feltrinelli house to publish a translation of From Sundown to Sunup ( Lo schiavo Americano dal tramonto all'alba ) in 1973. The Black Jacobins would be translated into Italian in 1968, and, alongside Harold Baron and Herbert Gutman, James would publish a piece in Da schiavo a proletario in 1973...

... edition of C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins, this classic work was the second he read about Toussaint Louverture, and “the main platform” he used to begin writing his trilogy.3 He shares with James, he notes—along with “a few other people”—an “enduring, even incurable...

... Catherine’s narrative in her introduction and Garvey’s career in her closing paragraph. It brought home to me, not for the fi rst time, how diffi cult it has proven to be for contemporary scholars on both sides of the color line to match C. L. R. James’s accomplishment, in Th e Black Jacobins...

... of the British Caribbean and Haiti. It has long been widely appreciated that the publication of C. L. R. James's masterpiece, The Black Jacobins , in 1938 sounded a new era in Caribbean history writing. In that book Trinidadian writer and Marxist thinker James took up the story of the Haitian Revolution...

.... L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938; reprint, London: Allison and Busby, 1980), 63. small axe 27 • October 2008 • p 1–13 • ISSN 0799-0537 2 | SX27 • Interpreting 2004: Politics, Memory, Scholarship Trouillot, focusing here...

... mind. It is in those moments that the “engagement with the unknown and unknowable” (to use Adderley’s words) produces the “informed speculation as a theoretical method” (to use Johnson’s). 10 Both essays, in fact, seem to echo James as he reflected on his writing of Black Jacobins : “Speculative...

... essay to The Black Jacobins . I argue that these examples yield forms of imagining community that range between an attachment to empire and a critique of empire that resist assimilation into nationalist frameworks. 8 During its period of gestation after World War II, the West Indies Federation...