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Author:

Glick, Jeremy Matthew, author.

Title:

The Black radical tragic : performance, aesthetics, and the unfinished Haitian Revolution / Jeremy Matthew Glick.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiii, 266 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Blacks in literature.
Radicalism in literature.
Tragic, The, in literature.
Haiti--In literature.
Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Drama.
Haiti--Literature and the revolution.--Revolution, 1791-1804--Literature and the revolution.

Notes:

"Also available as an ebook" -- Verso title page. 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.

Series:

America and the long 19th century

ISBN:

147984442X
9781479844425
1479813192
9781479813193

OCLC:

(OCoLC)906658680

LCCN:

2015021342

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)