Jeremy Glick
Jeremy Matthew Glick is an Associate Professor of African Diaspora literature
and modern drama and the new editor of Situations: A Journal of the Radical Imagination.
He is currently working on long-form essays on Frantz Fanon, Sam Greenlee's Black Power
Detective Fiction, and Century-Methodological Approaches to African American Literature.
His second book project is entitled Coriolanus Against Liberalism/ Lumumba & Pan-Africanist Loss.
Professor Glick has recently received the Nicolas Guillen Philosophical Literature Prize
for his 2016 book, The Black Radical Tragic.
Book:
As 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 activist-intellectuals in the African Diaspora. In The Black Radical Tragic, Jeremy Matthew Glick examines twentieth-century performances engaging the revolution as laboratories for political thinking. Asking readers to consider the revolution less a fixed event than an ongoing and open-ended 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 self-determination that have propelled Black radical struggles throughout the modern era.
“The Black Radical Tragic is infused with questions of memory, revolution, and how these concepts interact with one another across history. With rigorous attunement to the various registers in which revolt is recalled and recited, Jeremy Matthew Glick charts the Haitian revolution as an extended, ongoing historical moment of fugitive insurgency, the open culmination of the terrible and beautiful interplay of enlightenment and darkness. A brilliant and necessary book.” —Fred Moten, author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
“Grappling with the continuing reverberations of the Haitian Revolution in our present, Jeremy Matthew Glick’s The Black Radical Tragic defines the notion of the tragic within the black radical tradition with remarkable insights and impressive breadth. An engagingly written text that will shape not only how we think about the centrality of the Haitian Revolution but also questions of the modern in political thought.” —Anthony Bogues, Brown University
Selected Essays:
" 'To Live With Her Revolt': Dance on the Volcano's Diegetic Pivot" from the collection "Marie Vieux Chauvet's Theatres: Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt" edited by Christian Flaugh and Lena Taub Robles (2018)
"Progress notes: Scenes of Subjection's 'actualization' dialectic." Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory (2017).
"Aphoristic Lines of Flight in The Coming Insurrection: Ironies of Forgetting Yet Forging the Past: An Anamnesis for George Jackson." Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination 4.2 (2012): 81-109.
Select Publications:
Book Chapter, Aime Cesaire's Two ways to lose yourself: The Exception and The Rule for Partisan Universalism: Essays in Honor of Ato Sekyi-Otu, Edited by Gamal Abdel-Sheid and Sofia Noori, Daraja Press, 2021
Book Chapter, “Hegel Off the Tracks” for New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka edited by Jean-Phillipe Marcoux, Ohio State University Press, 2021
Journal Article, “Re-punctuating Amiri Baraka and W.E.B. Dubois with Francisco de Honoré Goya”, A-Line: A Journal of Progressive Thought, Convergence 4: The Arts in the 21st Century, Volume 2, No 1-2, August 2019: https://alinejournal.com/politics/re-punctuating-aimir-baraka-and-w-e-b-dubois/
Journal Article, "Method and Horizon: On Christian Parent's Dirigiste Radical Hamilton", A-Line: A Journal of Progressive Thought, Volume 2, No. 4, November 2020. https://alinejournal.com/vol-2-no-4/method-and-the-horizon-on-christian-parentis-dirigiste-radical-hamilton/
Panel Discussion:
"CLR James Haitian Revolutionary Plays" (Museum of Slavery, Liverpool)