{"product_id":"toussaint-louverture-the-story-of-the-only-successful-slave-revolt-in-history-a-play-in-three-acts-hardback-9780822353034","title":"Toussaint Louverture; The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; a Play in Three Acts (Hardback) 9780822353034","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eToussaint Louverture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; a Play in Three Acts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eC. L. R. James (Author), Christian Høgsbjerg (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822353034\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 December 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 10 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.2 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.449 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\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.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Scott McLemee (Inside Higher Ed) \u003cdiv\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.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Chris Searle (Race \u0026amp; Class) \u003cdiv\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.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Larry Schwartz (Library Journal) \u003cdiv\u003e“Highly recommended.”\u003c\/div\u003e - A.J. Guillaume Jr (Choice) \u003cdiv\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.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Robert Spencer (Journal of Postcolonial Writing) \u003cdiv\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.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Gaverne Bennett (London Socialist Historians Group) \u003cdiv\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). \"\u003c\/div\u003e - Kent Worcester (New Politics) \u003cdiv\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.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Bridget Brereton (Trinidad Express) \u003cdiv\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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Rachel Douglas (Anthurium)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, wrote the play \u003ci\u003eToussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History\u003c\/i\u003e, which was presumed lost until the rediscovery of a draft copy in 2005. The play's production, performed in 1936 at London's Westminster Theatre with a cast including the American star Paul Robeson, marked the first time black professional actors starred on the British stage in a play written by a black playwright. This edition includes the program, photographs, and reviews from that production, a contextual introduction and editorial notes on the play by Christian HØgsbjerg, and selected essays and letters by James and others. In \u003ci\u003eToussaint Louverture\u003c\/i\u003e, James demonstrates the full tragedy and heroism of Louverture by showing how the Haitian revolutionary leader is caught in a dramatic conflict arising from the contradiction between the barbaric realities of New World slavery and the modern ideals of the Enlightenment. In his portrayal of the Haitian Revolution, James aspired to vindicate black accomplishments in the face of racism and to support the struggle for self-government in his native Caribbean. \u003ci\u003eToussaint Louverture \u003c\/i\u003eis an indispensable companion work to \u003ci\u003eThe Black Jacobins\u003c\/i\u003e (1938), James's classic account of Haiti's revolutionary struggle for liberation.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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 \"\u003cbr\u003eThe Intelligence of the Negro\"\u003cbr\u003e \/ C. L. R. James 189\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eA Century of Freedom\"\u003cbr\u003e \/ C. L. R. James 199\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eSlavery Today: A Shocking Exposure\"\u003cbr\u003e \/ C. L. R. James 206\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eI Want Negro Culture\"\u003cbr\u003e \/ Paul Robeson 212\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003e'Civilising' the 'Blacks': Why Britain Needs to Maintain Her African Possessions\"\u003cbr\u003e \/ C. L. 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