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... 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...

... such as Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines in C. L. R James’s 1967 dramatic adaptation of his 1938 The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution . Instead, it examines a critical but often neglected character: a fictional woman named Celestine. In a play obsessed...

...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...

...Grégory Pierrot In The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (2022), Nick Nesbitt revisits the relation between Atlantic slavery and capitalism, questioning the paradoxical nature of their relation, and further engaging with critiques of the system in the Black Jacobin...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

..., “That Event, This Memory: Notes on the Anthropology of African Diasporas in the New World,” Diaspora 1, no. 3 (1991): 261–84. 26 James, Black Jacobins , 413 (emphasis mine). 25 Limits of space prevent a comprehensive cataloging of this work here, but an additional corollary to this sort...

... 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...

... of this “Caribbean method,” 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...

...: Princeton University Press, 2006), 6. 25 Michael Cronin, Translation in the Digital Age (London: Routledge, 2012), 75. 26 C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938; repr., New York: Vintage, 1963). 27 Susan Gillman, “Black...

... Underdeveloped Africa most closely resembles James’s The Black Jacobins and Eric Williams’s Capitalism and Slavery , published a generation earlier. 4 Indeed, I will argue, Rodney’s book is deeply (that is, conceptually , not only spiritually) connected to James’s and Williams’s books as one conjunctural...

... 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...

... within the revolutionary struggle in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. 10 But perhaps nowhere is his creative reading of Marx better reflected than in his analysis of slave labor in The Black Jacobins . “The slaves worked on the land, and, like revolutionary peasants everywhere, they aimed...

..., the black generals began to desert the French.4 Christophe s heroism, she suggests, did not merely lie in his personal virtues, which led him at times in opposite directions; it was forced on him from above, by the predatory Napoléon, and from below, by the pressure of the Haitian people. The Black Jacobins...

... in the Atlantic world. The Black Jacobins (1938) had already privileged the self-activity of the slaves in intensifying the antagonism between workers and capital until it reached its breaking point. “The transformation of slaves,” James famously writes, “trembling in hundreds before a single white man...

... 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...