作品情報

トリニダードの知識人で活動家の C.

トリニダードの知識人で活動家の C.L.R. ジェームズによって 1934 年に書かれた戯曲『トゥーサン ルーベルチュール』の新しい批評版が、1936 年にロンドンのウェストミンスター劇場で上演されましたが、その後 2005 年に再発見されるまで紛失したと推定されていました。

書籍情報

出版社

Duke Univ Pr

発売日

2012-12-31

ページ数

222ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

15.24 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm

ISBN-13

9780822353140

ISBN-10

0822353148

価格

4933 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Sociology/Race Relations/Discrimination & Racism

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 Høgsbjerg, 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.

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.

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