The Black Radical Tragic : : Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution /

The Black Radical Tragic : : Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution / / Jeremy Matthew Glick.

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2017 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award presented by the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationAs the first successful revolution emanating from a slave rebellion, the Haitian Revolution remains an inspired site of investigation for a remarkable range of artists and activist-intellectuals in the Af...

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Glick, Jeremy Matthew,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:America and the Long 19th Century ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 1 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Haitian Revolution as Refusal and Reuse
  • Overture: Haiti Against Forgetting and the Thermidorian Present
  • 1 Haitian Revolutionary Encounters: Eugene O’Neill, Sergei Eisenstein, and Orson Welles
  • 2 Bringing in the Chorus: The Haitian Revolution Plays of C.L.R. James and Edouard Glissant
  • 3 Tragedy as Mediation: The Black Jacobins
  • 4 Tshembe’s Choice: Lorraine Hansberry’s Pan-Africanist Drama and Haitian Revolution Opera
  • Conclusion: Malcolm X’s Enlistment of Hamlet and Spinoza
  • Coda: Black Radical Tragic Propositions
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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