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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... Trotsky's philosophy . Al Richardson goes so far as to identify as " the distinctive position of World Revolution " the possibility that “ its author was already in the process of rejecting Trotskyism " ( xv ) . It was certainly a ...
... Trotsky's approach in the argument with Lenin , James nonetheless sees the cogency of some of Trotsky's specific criticisms of democratic centralism as practiced by the party and by the International . Eventually these same criticisms ...
... Trotsky recalls the failing that James lays at the feet of Toussaint L'Ouverture . Trotsky had a great appeal to a broad sector of the Russian public . His oratory was renowned throughout Europe , and his writings , most especially his ...
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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