{"product_id":"9781788737906","title":"Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History","description":"Author: Karimjee, C.L.R. James, Nic Watts and Sa\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781788737906\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 27 Feb 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen C.L.R. James's \u003ci\u003eToussaint Louverture- The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History \u003c\/i\u003eopened in London featuring Paul Robeson in 1936, it was the first time black actors starred on a British stage in a play written by a black playwright. But after this extraordinary play ended its run, the script was lost for almost 70 years. Then a draft copy was found among James's archives, and now this groundbreaking drama has been turned into a graphic novel by artists Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee.\u003cbr\u003eThe polymath intellectual and Trinidadian revolutionary James, who wrote many books, including analyses of world politics, novels, and a seminal cultural study of cricket, is perhaps best known as the author of the classic history of the Haitian Revolution, \u003ci\u003eBlack Jacobins\u003c\/i\u003e. But James wrote this story first not as history but as theatre, and \u003ci\u003eToussaint Louverture\u003c\/i\u003e brings his brilliant interpretation of the epic of the Revolution into rousing, dramatic form.\u003cbr\u003eThis book reproduces the stirring script James wrote, and which united James for at least one night with his friend Robeson on the London stage, when the playwright was forced to stand in for an absent actor.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46636881379486,"sku":"UBD-9781788737906","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781788737906.jpg?v=1774398578","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781788737906","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}