Nicolamp225s Guillamp233n Outstanding Book Award presented by the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationAs the first successful revolution emanating from a slave rebellion the Haitian Revolution remains an inspired site of investigation for a remarkable range of artists and activistintellectuals in the African Diaspora.In The Black Radical Tragic Jeremy Matthew Glick examines twentiethcentury performances engaging the revolution as laboratories for political thinking. Asking readers to consider the revolution less a fixed event than an ongoing and openended history resonating across the work of Atlantic world intellectuals Glick argues that these writers use the Haitian Revolution as a watershed to chart their own radical political paths animating enriching and framing their artistic and scholarly projects. Spanning the disciplines of literature philosophy and political thought The Black Radical Tragic explores work from Lorraine Hansberry Sergei Eisenstein Edouard Glissant Malcolm X and others ultimately enacting a speculative encounter between Bertolt Brecht and C.L.R. James to reconsider the relationship between tragedy and revolution. In its grand refusal to forget The Black Radical Tragic demonstrates how the Haitian Revolution has influenced the ideas of freedom and selfdetermination that have propelled Black radical struggles throughout the modern era.