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Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; a Play in Three Acts(The C. L. R. James Archives)

Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; a Play in Three Acts(The C. L. R. James Archives)


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In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, wrote the play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, 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 Hogsbjerg, and selected essays and letters by James and others. In Toussaint Louverture, 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. Toussaint Louverture is an indispensable companion work to The Black Jacobins (1938), James's classic account of Haiti's revolutionary struggle for liberation.

Table of Contents:
Foreword / Laurent Dubois vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction / Christian Høgsbjerg 1 Editorial Note / Christian Høgsbjerg 41 Author's Note (1936) / C. L. R. James 45 Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History The Complete Playscript (1934) 47 Act II, Scene I, of Toussaint Louverture (1936) 135 The Production and Performance of Toussaint Louverture Notices 155 The Programme (1936) 160 Reviews 164 Appendix "The Intelligence of the Negro" / C. L. R. James 189 "A Century of Freedom" / C. L. R. James 199 "Slavery Today: A Shocking Exposure" / C. L. R. James 206 "I Want Negro Culture" / Paul Robeson 212 "'Civilising' the 'Blacks': Why Britain Needs to Maintain Her African Possessions" / C. L. R. James 214 Letter from George Padmore to Dr. Alain Locke 217 ["The Maverick Club"] / C. L. R. James 218 "A Unique Personality" / C. L. R. James 219 "Paul Robeson" / C. L. R. James 221

About the Author :
C. L. R. James (1901–89) was a Trinidadian historian, novelist, activist, and cultural and political critic. He wrote many books, including a seminal cultural study of cricket, Beyond a Boundary, which is also published by Duke University Press. Christian HØgsbjerg is a historian who lectures at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Review :
"Long legendary throughout the diaspora, the first version of C. L. R. James's play about Toussaint Louverture finally emerges from the archives. This play is the production that united James with his friend Paul Robeson on the London stage. It was an extraordinary event at the time - witness the contemporary reviews added to this publication - and it is no less extraordinary today. In addition to reviews, this edition also reprints valuable early statements from James and Robeson. It is a singular, one might even say Olympian, volume with much to teach us all." - Aldon Lynn Nielsen, author of C. L. R. James: A Critical Introduction and Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation "The text of this nearly forgotten drama, succinctly introduced to today's readers with a valuable set of accompanying essays, is an invaluable contribution to Pan-African studies and our understanding of 'the Black Plato' as a remarkably talented playwright. C. L. R. James readers, and not only those of The Black Jacobins, will rejoice." - Paul Buhle, authorized biographer, author of C. L. R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary "Toussaint Louverture 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. Besides the script itself, it assembles an extensive and probably exhaustive dossier of notices and reviews of the play, as well as several relevant essays by the playwright that have never been reprinted until now...Hogsbjerg's introductory essay of about 40 pages situates the play and its performance into cultural and political context with considerable insight and finesse, and is one of the best-informed pieces of scholarship on any aspect of C.L.R. James's life and work ever published. The notes alone are more substantial than some books on the author." - Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Education


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822353140
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Series Title: The C. L. R. James Archives
  • Weight: 368 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0822353148
  • Publisher Date: 31 Dec 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Sub Title: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; a Play in Three Acts
  • Width: 156 mm


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