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

Rachel Douglas is Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow and author of Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Toussaint Louverture Takes Center Stage: The 1930s  29
2. Making History: The Black Jacobins (1938)  69
3. Rewriting History: The Black Jacobins (1963)  102
4. Reshaping the Past as Drama (1967)  133
5. Afterlives of The Black Jacobins  178
Notes  215
Bibliography  265
Index  295

About the author

Rachel Douglas is Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow and author of Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress.

Summary

Rachel Douglas traces the genesis, transformation, and afterlives of the different versions of C. L. R. James's landmark The Black Jacobins across the decades from the 1930s onwards, showing how James revised it in light of his evolving politics.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Douglas
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781478004271
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0427-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: The C. L. R. James Archives; The C. L. R. James Archives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories