Jeremy Matthew Glick
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479844425
- eISBN:
- 9781479814855
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479844425.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter looks at questions of mediation in C.L.R. James’s Haitian revolutionary history The Black Jacobins. It contains a large excursus on problems of expansion and contraction and embodiment ...
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This chapter looks at questions of mediation in C.L.R. James’s Haitian revolutionary history The Black Jacobins. It contains a large excursus on problems of expansion and contraction and embodiment in Rodin’s sculpture as well as C.L.R. James’s and Rilke’s encounters with Rodin’s work, in particular St. John the Baptist. I engage the scholarship of Hazel Carby on Paul Robeson as well as David Scott’s work on C.L.R. James, including James’s encounter with Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire.Less
This chapter looks at questions of mediation in C.L.R. James’s Haitian revolutionary history The Black Jacobins. It contains a large excursus on problems of expansion and contraction and embodiment in Rodin’s sculpture as well as C.L.R. James’s and Rilke’s encounters with Rodin’s work, in particular St. John the Baptist. I engage the scholarship of Hazel Carby on Paul Robeson as well as David Scott’s work on C.L.R. James, including James’s encounter with Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire.
