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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... Union of South Africa , a union that began with but twenty - four members and rapidly expanded to a membership of 100,000 with representatives even in many of the outlying rural villages . For James , " the real parallel to this ...
... Union was impossible . For that the assistance of several of the most advanced countries was needed . In October he published a new edition of the book in which the passage was changed to exactly the opposite ” ( WR 157 ) . From that ...
... Union in the context of the dialectical motions of history . Trotsky held that Stalinism was a deception perpetrated upon the workers , but James and his group find that diagnosis both simplistic and condescending . James holds that the ...
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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