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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... International had broken away from the principles and policies that it had proclaimed , he set out at once to lay the foundation of the Third International " ( MP 41 ) . As he sets out upon the work of World Revolution , James finds in ...
... International , but the book is certainly a thick description resting upon a solid foundation of detail and document . It is also a most carefully composed narrative , rhetorically effective and novel- like in its symmetrical ...
... International . James felt that an international Marxist coalition was still required if the workers were to save themselves from the holocaust their masters intended for them . He concludes his polemic with a plea for a Fourth ...
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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