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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Rachel Douglas
• Edition: Duke University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781478004271
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0427-1
• Pages: 320
• Thèmes: The C. L. R. James Archives; The C. L. R. James Archives
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques