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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... England and for getting his book into print , Learie Constantine , but James's first , and only , novel , Minty Alley , is dedicated to the same woman who had read and criticized his first childhood efforts at fiction , his mother . In ...
... England ” 79 ) . Hill notes that James effectively dispensed with the prevailing scholarship on the Abolition movement in England and the end of slavery in the colonies , in the process laying the foundations for such important later ...
A Critical Introduction Aldon Lynn Nielsen. When James left Trinidad for England , he took with him the completed manuscript of his novel , which was to become one of the first of the new West Indian novels to be published in England ...
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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