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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... Trinidad schoolmaster , without European or university education of any kind " ( " Intellectual " 27 ) , a schoolmaster who had already published The ... Trinidad , he used this group as an artistic core DISCOVERING LITERATURE IN TRINIDAD 5.
... Trinidad's busi- ness community , and even though organized as a showplace for Trinidadian writing , was far from presenting a united front in cultural and political matters . Like the earlier Trinidad , it provided an outlet for ...
... Trinidad ” ( RV 1 ) . " Revolution " demonstrates how intimately the neighboring territories of the Caribbean and mainland South America were intertwined in their social lives . This had always been particularly true of Trinidad , with ...
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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