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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... Phillips , for one , he came across a passage that must have seemed particularly propitious to a political writer such as James , who was even then in correspondence internationally with a group of radical theorists who published their ...
... Phillips , wrote this about Phillips's text : " seen in its context , it is perhaps the highest peak reached by the United States intellectuals in the foreshadowing of the future of the world of today and in indicating how deeply all ...
... Phillips in his paean to Toussaint . Phillips cleverly contrasts L'Ouverture to a figure of history well - known to his nineteenth - century audience , Oliver Cromwell . Cromwell manufactured an army , according to Phillips , out of ...
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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