From Matthew Bondman to Toussaint Louverture: a window to The Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James

Erik Wellington Barbosa Borda

doi:10.5354/0719-4862.2021.61353

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From Matthew Bondman to Toussaint Louverture: a window to The Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James

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Erik Wellington Barbosa Borda Universidad Estadual de Campinas

No. 16 (2021): April-september. Dossier: "Afro-Descendant Intellectuals in Latin America and the Caribbean: Figures, Discourses and Spaces of Circulation"

https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2021.61353

Abstract

This text argues, based on review of studies concerning the Trinidadian author C. L. R. James, that James’ reflections on Matthew Bondman in Beyond a Boundary sums many author’s long lasting intellectual concerns and positions. This condensation is taken here as not only an epistemology particular to his writings, but also as a key to interpret James’ intellectual interventions. As a development of this standpoint, it is offered a reading of The Black Jacobins based on four displacements that were identified in this work.

Keywords:

C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins, Caribbean, Post-colonial, Pan-africanism

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Barbosa Borda, E. W. (2021). From Matthew Bondman to Toussaint Louverture: a window to The Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (16). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2021.61353