The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution (America and the Long 19th Century Book 2)

A fascinating, brilliant and timely document, The Black Radical Tragic weaves and interprets the role of art and theatrical performance together with traditions of resistance and revolt centered around Haiti, her people and her anti-colonial legacy of rebellion. Glick is an expert analytical witness to historic and current waves of revolution, and his long-awaited book celebrates Haiti's revolutionary history and the legacy it continues to create.

A tour de force . Glick has compelled us to rethink the role of the tragic and its relationship to the political. One could view two essential films in the context of Glick's effort and come away a much fuller human being : Pontecorvo's Burn and Guiterrez- Alea's The Last Supper.