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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... Marx writes as one who has seen a ghost , and in his own readings of Marx , C. L. R. James writes as one attempting to differentiate the varied grey shades cast upon the wall before him . His concern with the spectral precedes Facing ...
... Marx , Gayatri Spivak felt compelled in the course of discussions with the audience to reassert this very point . ) James notes that " for the word abolition , aufhebung , Marx went again to Hegel . " In his April 1943 essay ...
... Marx and Engels were devoting pages of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung Revue , a paper that circulated in America as well as in Europe , to considerations of the continuing importance of American slavery to the European economy . Spotting ...
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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