{"product_id":"toussaint-louverture-9780822353140","title":"Toussaint Louverture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new critical edition of \u003ci\u003eToussaint Louverture\u003c\/i\u003e, the play written by the Trinidadian intellectual and activist C. L. R. James in 1934, performed at London's Westminster Theatre in 1936, and then presumed lost until its rediscovery in 2005.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[T]horoughly researched and intelligently prepared. . . .\u003ci\u003eToussaint Louverture\u003c\/i\u003e is easily one of the two or three most important publications of C.L.R. James’s work in decades – and the best-edited, by a very large margin.” -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *\u003cbr\u003e“This present volume . . . contains the play itself among an array of fascinating accompanying texts. These include an enlightening introduction by Høgsbjerg, a series of notices and reviews of the performances, which featured the most renowned black actor of his generation, Paul Robeson, as the Haitian revolutionary leader, plus other writings by James, Robeson and George Padmore, which pitch the play within its vital contemporary context: all in all, a profoundly engaging, original and epochal document.” -- Chris Searle * Race \u0026amp; Class *\u003cbr\u003e(Starred Review) “This script is from a bygone age; its value lies not only in its importance as a document of theater history but also as a crucial addition to the canon of works about the Caribbean. This work would be difficult to stage these days (it boasts an especially large cast), but it should not be ignored by groups that can marshal the resources. Historians of the Caribbean will find it essential.” -- Larry Schwartz * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e“Highly recommended.” -- A.J. Guillaume Jr * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“Why should we pay attention to this long-lost and largely forgotten play? We should do so because it is among the first efforts of one of history’s great anti-colonial voices, wrestling with the distinctive aesthetic quandaries of form and performance, to show that freedom from imperialism is just a phrase if it does not entail direct democracy and universal rights. James was nothing if not ambitious.” -- Robert Spencer * Journal of Postcolonial Writing *\u003cbr\u003e“We all owe much to the expert salvage operation Christian Høgsbjerg has performed here.  As long as the world wilts with oppression, is awash with crisis, and punctuated by resistance this play, its subject matter, and now this book, will have to be read, watched and pondered on over and over again.” -- Gaverne Bennett * London Socialist Historians Group *\u003cbr\u003e\"More than any other contemporary writer on James, Christian Høgsbjerg appreciates how provisional and incomplete our understanding of this intellectual agenda has actually been. . . . The publication of James’s foray into theatrical prose is not only a delightful literary event in its own right but provides a welcome opportunity to revisit the historical and intellectual context in which James produced his landmark work of comparative historical analysis, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the San Domingo Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (1938). \" -- Kent Worcester * New Politics *\u003cbr\u003e“[T]he many people interested in James, and the many admirers in particular of his \u003ci\u003eThe Black Jacobins\u003c\/i\u003e, will welcome this first publication of his 1934 play. It includes Christian Hogsbjerg’s well researched introduction and annotations, and several other pieces related to the play which form the appendix to this volume.” -- Bridget Brereton * Trinidad Express *\u003cbr\u003e\"It would be hard to overstate the importance of Christian Høgsbjerg’s new critical edition of C.L.R. James’s \u003ci\u003eToussaint Louverture\u003c\/i\u003e.... Publication of \u003ci\u003eToussaint Louverture\u003c\/i\u003e is such a resource for all readers. There could be no better work with which to launch the important new C.L.R. James Archives Series, edited by Robert A. Hill for Duke University Press.\" -- Rachel Douglas * Anthurium *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword \/ Laurent Dubois vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Christian Høgsbjerg 1\u003cbr\u003e Editorial Note \/ Christian Høgsbjerg 41\u003cbr\u003e Author's Note (1936) \/ C. L. R. James 45\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eToussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Complete Playscript (1934) 47\u003cbr\u003e Act II, Scene I, of \u003ci\u003eToussaint Louverture\u003c\/i\u003e (1936) 135\u003cbr\u003e The Production and Performance of \u003ci\u003eToussaint Louverture\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notices 155\u003cbr\u003e The Programme (1936) 160\u003cbr\u003e Reviews 164\u003cbr\u003e Appendix \u003cbr\u003e \"The Intelligence of the Negro\" \/ C. L. R. James 189\u003cbr\u003e \"A Century of Freedom\" \/ C. L. R. James 199\u003cbr\u003e \"Slavery Today: A Shocking Exposure\" \/ C. L. R. James 206\u003cbr\u003e \"I Want Negro Culture\" \/ Paul Robeson 212\u003cbr\u003e \"'Civilising' the 'Blacks': Why Britain Needs to Maintain Her African Possessions\" \/ C. L. R. James 214\u003cbr\u003e Letter from George Padmore to Dr. Alain Locke 217\u003cbr\u003e [\"The Maverick Club\"] \/ C. L. R. James 218\u003cbr\u003e \"A Unique Personality\" \/ C. L. R. James 219\u003cbr\u003e \"Paul Robeson\" \/ C. L. R. James 221\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406072291671,"sku":"9780822353140","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822353140.jpg?v=1730494432","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/toussaint-louverture-9780822353140","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}