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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... James's writing and reading , in the reading of the American judiciary , that mark him as profoundly un - American . James writes towards the end of Mariners : " It now appears that such work , serious work and some of it pioneer work ...
... James writes , " is to put it down as far as possible as it was told to me , in my own style ” ( JR 25 ) , and there is no subsequent untangling of this narrative knot . James at the same time promises readers that he is merely relaying ...
... James could not have known of it at the time , the American poet William ... James's arrival in the United States of his exasperation at the dominant ... writes that “ the intellectual was an organic part of rationalist society ...
Contents
Spheres of EXISTENCE WHAT MAISIE KNEW | 3 |
Minty Alley | 17 |
Preface to Criticism | 35 |
Copyright | |
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