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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... Notes on Dialectics , an informal text in which James locates his opposition to communist parties and his support of Marxism in a return to the texts of Hegel , the same Hegel who had positioned Africa , the land of James's ancestors ...
... Notes on Dialectics , for far from advancing the “ notion ” that the proletariat take over the “ absolute substance of the state rather than abolishing it , " what James actually writes in his Notes is that " the coming of age of the ...
... Notes on Dialectics place Trotsky's inability to comprehend what had taken place in the Soviet Union in the context of the dialectical motions of history . Trotsky held that Stalinism was a deception perpetrated upon the workers , but ...
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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