Book review: making the Black Jacobins: C.L.R. James and the drama of history by Rachel Douglas

Timcke, Scott (2020) Book review: making the Black Jacobins: C.L.R. James and the drama of history by Rachel Douglas. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog (09 Aug 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In Making The Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and the Drama of History, Rachel Douglas examines the formation of James’s groundbreaking work on the Haitian Revolution, exploring its genesis, transformations and afterlives through its different texts, stagings and editions. Positioning The Black Jacobins as a ‘palimpsestually multilayered text-network’ formed through processes of rewriting and revision, this book is a welcome addition to scholarship on James and offers a thoughtful approach to the relationship between Marxist theory and historical analysis, writes Scott Timcke.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History
Date Deposited:	05 Oct 2020 09:15
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 10:42
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106441

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