The Black Radical Tragic : Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution Paperback / softback
by Jeremy Matthew Glick
Part of the America and the Long 19th Century series
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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 African Diaspora. In The Black Radical Tragic, Jeremy Matthew Glick examines twentieth-century performances engaging the revolution as laboratories for political thinking.
Asking readers to consider the revolution less a fixed event than an ongoing and open-ended history resonating across the work of Atlantic world intellectuals, Glick argues that these writers use the Haitian Revolution as a watershed to chart their own radical political paths, animating, enriching, and framing their artistic and scholarly projects.
Spanning the disciplines of literature, philosophy, and political thought, The Black Radical Tragic explores work from Lorraine Hansberry, Sergei Eisenstein, Edouard Glissant, Malcolm X, and others, ultimately enacting a speculative encounter between Bertolt Brecht and C.L.R.
James to reconsider the relationship between tragedy and revolution.
In its grand refusal to forget, The Black Radical Tragic demonstrates how the Haitian Revolution has influenced the ideas of freedom and self-determination that have propelled Black radical struggles throughout the modern era.
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- Pages:296 pages, 1 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:New York University Press
- Publication Date:15/01/2016
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- ISBN:9781479813193
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages, 1 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:New York University Press
- Publication Date:15/01/2016
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- ISBN:9781479813193