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Special issue of the CLR James Review: "Creolizing Rousseau"

The C.L.R. James Journal is pleased to announce the publication of its Spring 2009 special issue, Creolizing Rousseau, guest co-edited by Jane Anna Gordon and Neil Roberts.


The CLR James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas
Special Issue: Creolizing Rousseau
Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2009

Table of Contents

EDITORS’ NOTE

Introduction: The Project of Creolizing Rousseau
Jane Anna Gordon and Neil Roberts


DEBATING CREOLIZATION: AN INTRODUCTION

Of Legitimation and the General Will: Creolizing Rousseau through Frantz Fanon
Jane Anna Gordon

From Mestiçagem to Cosmopolitanism
Alexis Nouss

Beyond Négritude and Créolité: The Ongoing Creolization of Identities
Mickaella Perina

CREOLIZING ROUSSEAU

Rousseau, the Master’s Tools, and Anti-Contractarian Contractarianism

Charles W. Mills

Rousseau and Fanon on Inequality and the Human Sciences
Nelson Maldonado-Torres

From Rousseau’s Theory of Natural Equality to Firmin's Resistance to the Historical Inequality of Races
Tommy J. Curry

Rousseau and the Problem of Democratic Transition in Postcolonial Africa

George Carew

C.L.R. James and the Creolizing of Rousseau and Marx

Paget Henry

Virtuous Bacchanalia: Creolizing Rousseau’s Festival
Chiji Akoma and Sally Scholz

REVIEW ESSAYS


Rousseau, Social Alienation, and the Possibility of Generative Critique: A Review Essay
Emily C. Nacol

On Pateman and Mills’s Contract and Domination

Lewis R. Gordon

Space, Power, Consciousness and Women's Resistance: A Review Essay
Gertrude Gonzáles de Allen

ACCEPTANCE LETTER OF WILSON HARRIS, FIRST RECIPIENT OF THE CPA NICOLÁS GUILLÉN PRIZE FOR PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURE

BOOK DISCUSSION

Sylvia Marcos’s Taken from the Lips as a Post-secular Transmodern, and Decolonial Methodology

Nelson Maldonado-Torres

On Sylvia Marcos’s Taken from the Lips
Karen Torjesen

On Sylvia Marcos’s Journey along the Spiral of Nahuatl Gender and Eros
Madina Tlostanova

Cosmology and Gender in Sylvia Marcos’s Taken From the Lips: Gender and Eros in Mesoamerican Religions
María Lugones

Unapologetically to Introduce New Goals and Methods: A Reply
Sylvia Marcos


In addition, the complete introduction that articulates the project of creolizing Rousseau and summarizes the essay of each author can be found at:


http://www.williams.edu/africana-studies/NeilRoberts/CreolizingRousseauIntroduction/EditorsNotes.htm


If you wish to obtain a copy of the issue, please direct your requests to Paget Henry (Paget_Henry@brown.edu), Executive Editor of The C.L.R. James Journal.