A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a...
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive acco...
C. L. R. James Cyril Lionel Robert James Kenneth Ramchand
First published in London in 1939, Minty Alley is now made available for the first time to American readers. In the pages of this work, C. L. R. James is both an imaginative political theorist and a sensitive commentator on the West Indian social and cultural scene.
James's novel has been acclaimed as -a groundbreaking example of regional social realism- and as -a major forerunner of the Caribbean literary movements in English.- Many of James's readers believe that it is not possible fully to comprehend Caribbean literary art in English without first reading Minty Alley. In...
First published in London in 1939, Minty Alley is now made available for the first time to American readers. In the pages of this work, C. L...