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The Black radical tragic : performance, aesthetics, and the unfinished Haitian Revolution /

"As 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 African Diaspora. In The Black Radical Tragic, Jeremy Matthew Glick examines twentieth-centu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Glick, Jeremy Matthew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Colección:America and the long 19th century.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.