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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Glick, Jeremy Matthew (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Series:America and the long 19th century.
Subjects:
1791-1804
Black people in literature.
Radicalism in literature.
Tragic, The, in literature.
Personnes noires dans la littérature.
Radicalisme dans la littérature.
Tragique dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Black people in literature
Literature
Radicalism in literature
Tragic, The, in literature
Literatur
Haitianische Revolution > Motiv
Haiti > In literature.
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Drama.
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Literature and the revolution.
Haiti
Drama
History
Drama.
Théâtre.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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