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The Black Radical Tragic America and the Long 19th Century General Editors David Kazanjian, Elizabeth McHenry, and Priscilla Wald Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor Elizabeth Young Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel Edlie L. Wong Shadowing the White Man’s Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line Gretchen Murphy Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded- Age America James B. Salazar Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines Meg Wesling Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature William A. Gleason Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights Robin Bernstein American Arabesque: Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary Jacob Rama Berman Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century Kyla Wazana Tompkins Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth- Century America Andrew Lyndon Knighton The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr Michael J. Drexler and Ed White Unsettled States: Nineteenth- Century American Literary Studies Edited by Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain, Asia, and Comparative Racialization Hsuan L. Hsu Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century Jasmine Nichole Cobb Stella Émeric Bergeaud Translated by Lesley Curtis and Christen Mucher Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship Edlie L. Wong Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands Robert Lawrence Gunn The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution Jeremy Matthew Glick The Black Radical Tragic Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution Jeremy Matthew Glick a New York University Press New York and London NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London www.nyupress.org © 2016 by New York University All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Glick, Jeremy Matthew. The Black radical tragic : performance, aesthetics, and the unfinished Haitian Revolution / Jeremy Matthew Glick. pages cm. (America and the long 19th century) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4798-4442-5 (cl : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4798-1319-3 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Haiti—In literature. 2. Haiti—History—Revolution, 1791–1804— Drama. 3. Haiti—History—Revolution, 1791–1804—Literature and the revolution. 4. Blacks in literature. 5. Radicalism in literature. 6. Tragic, The, in literature. I. Title. PN56.3.H35G55 2015 809'.933587294—dc23 2015021342 References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. New York University Press books are printed on acid- free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. We strive to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the greatest extent possible in publishing our books. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Also available as an ebook A book in the American Literatures Initiative (ALI), a collaborative publishing project of NYU Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, and the University of Virginia Press. The Initiative is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, please visit www.americanliteratures.org. In loving memory of Barry H. Glick, Ivan Van Sertima, and Amiri Baraka Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Haitian Revolution as Refusal and Reuse 1 Overture: Haiti Against Forgetting and the Thermidorian Present 25 1 Haitian Revolutionary Encounters: Eugene O’Neill, Sergei Eisenstein, and Orson Welles 54 2 Bringing in the Chorus: The Haitian Revolution Plays of C.L.R. James and Edouard Glissant 85 3 Tragedy as Mediation: The Black Jacobins 126 4 Tshembe’s Choice: Lorraine Hansberry’s Pan-Africanist Drama and Haitian Revolution Opera 170 Conclusion: Malcolm X’s Enlistment of Hamlet and Spinoza 198 Coda: Black Radical Tragic Propositions 214 Notes 223 Index 255 About the Author 267
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