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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... Action newspaper , under the title " The Negro's Fight , " James remarks on May 27 , 1940 , that " six weeks after publication , Native Son , a novel about a Negro by a Negro , Richard Wright , had sold a quarter of a million copies ...
... action . The very first thing he advises is publication of a pamphlet that , in outline , closely resembles his own History of Negro Revolt . Alongside that pamphlet for general distribution , James calls for the preparation of a ...
... Action 27 May 1940 : 1 . Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution . London : Allison and Busby , 1977 . - . Notes on Dialectics : Hegel , Marx , Lenin . 1948. Westport : Lawrence Hill and Company , 1980 . The Old World and the New : Shakespeare ...
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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