The Kingdom of Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and Alejo Carpentier on the Haitian Revolution

From: Afro - Hispanic Review | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: ­ ctor; Figueroa, VÃ | Copyright information

In his well-known work The Black Jacobins, the Trinidadian writer and philosopher C. L. R. James informs us that "West Indians first became aware of themselves as a people in the Haitian Revolution" (391). There may be some truth in those words, for there are very few other events about which the three largest linguistic regions of the Caribbean have produced acknowledged literary masterpieces. However, if James's words are true, then West Indian self awareness is a very perplexing and fragme...

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