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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... African Bureau , which helped to develop the early political strategies of Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah . Characteristically , James moves in his listing of great Pan - African politi- cal leaders from the West Indies to Africa ...
... African Service Bureau typified much of James's subsequent work . In collaboration with such activists as Jomo Kenyatta , Amy Ashwood Garvey , George Padmore , and Ras Makon- nen , James formed a Pan - African nucleus whose influence ...
... African abstraction , James must have thought long about that window . Picasso's works are , as has been so often pointed out , one of the myriad of places in which James could locate Africanity at the very center of the modernist ...
Contents
SPHERES Of Existence WHAT MAISie Knew | 3 |
AT THE RENDEZVOUS OF VICTORY | 51 |
THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT | 95 |
Copyright | |
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