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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... Black Jacobins , by one C. L. R. James ( RM 120 ) . Likewise , in an essay on " Capitalist Society and the War " that appeared in the July 1940 issue of the New International , J. R. Johnson quotes approvingly from the first page of ...
... Black Jacobins was a book that should be displayed during Negro History Week ( 60 ) , and he felt that James's application of the concept of class struggle to his investigations of the slaves ' insurrection was accomplished with ...
... Black Jacobins he says of the earliest French colonists in San Domingo , “ So little did they bring Negroes because these were barbarous or black , that the early laws prescribed similar regulations for both black slaves and white ...
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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