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The Black Jacobins

Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

C. L. R. James

The Black Jacobins
The Black Jacobins

The Black Jacobins

Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

C. L. R. James

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Omschrijving

The black Plato of our generation ... the founding father of African emancipation.

The black Plato of our generation ... the founding father of African emancipation.

The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in story-telling and analysis.

Contains some of the finest and most deeply felt polemical writing against slavery and racism ever to be published.

The Black Jacobins is one of the great books of the twentieth century ... one that wrote the history of a people supposedly without history.

James is, quite simply, the outstanding West Indian of the twentieth century.

A starting point and an intellectual inspiration ... a classic of masterly historical writing.

James is not afraid to touch his pen with the flame of ardent personal feeling - a sense of justice, love of freedom, admiration for heroism, hatred for tyranny - and his detailed, richly documented and dramatically written book holds a deep and lasting interest.

Revolutionarily, the book abandoned the old narrative of black victimhood in favour of accenting the agency of the formerly enslaved who, fuelled by a desire for liberty, fought to achieve autonomy.

The standard and the main text through which the Haitian revolution is studied ... a book I've read back to back many times ... An incredibly brilliant book, an undeniably magnificent contribution to scholarship.

Reading and rereading The Black Jacobins, I am struck by its incredible wit and humanity, and James' determination to write a history of slavery in the Caribbean in which people of African descent appear as thinking, feeling human agents - in other words, as the protagonists of their own history and not background characters in an essentially European story.

C. L. R. James was born in Trinidad in 1901 and was one of the prominent figures in the West Indian diaspora. He wrote extensively on Caribbean history, Marxist theory, literary criticism, Western civilisation, African politics, cricket and popular culture. He died in 1989.

Specificaties

  • Uitgever
    Penguin Classics
  • Verschenen
    okt. 2022
  • Bladzijden
    416
  • Genre
    Slavernij en afschaffing van slavernij
  • Afmetingen
    198 x 130 x 23 mm
  • Gewicht
    311 gram
  • EAN
    9780241562079
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Taal
    Engels

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