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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... political agenda of Abolition , James is clearly right to argue that the labors of the New World Africans created not only plantation wealth but much of the historical circumstances enabling the rise to prominence of the ideals of ...
... political self - determination : “ a people like ours should be free to make its own failures and successes , free to gain that political wisdom and political experience which come only from the practice of political affairs " ( JR 62 ) ...
... Politics of History . ” Farred 103-30 . LaGuerre , John Gaffar . The Social and Political Thought of the Colonial Intelligentsia . Mona , Jamaica : Institute of Social and Economic Research , 1982 . Lamming , George . The Pleasures of ...
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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