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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... West Indian Fables Explained . Thomas's book is not even now well known in North America . It is a beautifully accomplished refutation of James Anthony Froude's The English in the West Indies : or , The Bow of Ulysses . Froude was a ...
... West Indian peoples have something unique to bring to the literature of the English language both culturally and formally . In the beginning , James saw " that the African who made the Middle Passage and came to live in the West Indies ...
... West Indian novelists , and others of their generation , James says : " There is nothing like them in English ... West Indian reconstrual of English . When James wrote to the TLS editor , responding to a column that dealt with Caribbean ...
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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