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The Black radical tragic : performance, aesthetics, and the unfinished Haitian Revolution
Title
The Black radical tragic : performance, aesthetics, and the unfinished Haitian Revolution / Jeremy Matthew Glick.
ISBN
9781479844425
147984442X
9781479813193
1479813192
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
xiii, 266 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Also available as an ebook" -- Verso title page.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 19, 2016
Series
America and the long 19th century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-253) and index.
Contents
Introduction: the Haitian Revolution as refusal and reuse
Overture: Haiti against forgetting and the thermidorean present
Haitian revolutionary encounters: Eugene O'Neill, Sergei Eisenstein, and Orson Welles
Bringing in the chorus: the Haitian Revolution plays of C.L.R. James and Edouard Glissant
Tragedy as mediation: the Black Jacobins
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.
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