C.L.R. James: A Critical IntroductionUniversity Press of Mississippi, 1997 - 199 pages This study of C. L. R. James's writings is the first to look at them as literature and not as theory. This sustained analysis of his major published works places them in the context of his less well-known writings and offers an encompassing critique of one of the African diaspora's most significant thinkers and writers. Here the author of Black Jacobins, World Revolution, A History of Pan-African Revolt, , Beyond a Boundary, and the lyric novel Minty Alley is seen not only as among the great political philosophers but also as the literary artist that he remained, from his first writings in his native Trinidad through his underground years in America, to his final essays and speeches in London. The writings of James have inspired revolutionaries on three continents. They have altered the course of historiography, shown that way toward independent black political struggles, and established a base for much of today's study of culture. This study evaluates them as powerful works of literature. |
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... later histories as Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery . Further , " James's work laid the foundation for the later systematic analyses of slave and colonial resistances , as well as the factor of the radical consciousness realized ...
... later American printings of the book , the map was reduced in size and moved to the front of the volume , while the portrait of L'Ouverture was first recopied in a color version on the cover and subsequently removed all together . Also ...
... later historians had gone in order to avoid admitting this fact . “ As usual the strength of the mass movement dragged in its wake revolutionary sections of those classes nearest to it . Free blacks joined them " ( BJ 89 ) . As the ...
Contents
Spheres of Existence What MAISIE KNEW | 3 |
AT THE RENDEZVOUS OF VICTORY | 51 |
THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT ΙΟΙ | 95 |
Copyright | |
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