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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... Caribbean People , " James pointed out to his audiences that writers from the Caribbean had played an important part in the creation of new aesthetic forms in European literary history , including names such as Alexander Dumas , Leconte ...
... Caribbean ; the giving voice to the porters , prostitutes , carter - men , washer - women , and domestic servants of the city in their own language and surrounded by their African cultural values , belief systems , and cosmology " ( 56 ) ...
... Caribbean was the first modern society to arise outside Western Europe , where both institutions and populations had been transplanted " ( 86 ) . James's recognition that the hybrid economic modes of West Indian colonialism signaled new ...
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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