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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... social justice . Imperialism was not yet finished with Haiti , and from this the independence parties growing in ... social identity that was formed around the material facts of sugar production and African slave labor . He repeats his ...
... social sense ” ( 150 ) . James , who came of age contemplating the heroic vistas spread before him as he looked out from his island home , holds that these modern restruc- turings of the social have imbued the world's population with ...
... social problem , they thereby give proof of a common collectivized social attitude to that problem " ( AC 136 ) . The producers of mass art cannot afford to ignore completely that collectivized social attitude , and in point of fact ...
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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