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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... English writing . Frequently , as in " The Making of the 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 ...
... English prose wrought by Irish authors from Swift to Joyce and Beckett . In his own lifetime , James not only contributed something of great originality to English prose , he lived to see novelists such as George Lamming and Wilson ...
... English who designed his education . It has created a social distance from which he feels he is better able to comprehend the history and culture both of his own island home and of the British isle . The rhetorical question framing ...
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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