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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... Civilization remained in manuscript form at James's death , and he had never been able to return to his prospectus , first composed around 1949 , long enough to flesh out his plan for fuller analyses of these phenomena . As ...
... Civilization were to be something of an oral autocritique of the American people . The extant volume is one of those nearly uncharacterizable texts that James seems to have specialized in producing . Circulated confidentially among a ...
... civilization itself which we see more sharply than they themselves ” ( C 117 ) . What James describes is a colonial experience linking descendants of Africa and India within British civilization , a mode of critique akin to Du Bois's ...
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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