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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... become a measure for him of his present distance from a missed opportunity . His son , Johnny , has also been swept up in cinematic discourse , but with a quite different result . Because other children have taunted him for his ...
... becomes strongest in the midst of struggle to become a nation . James makes much of the fact that Césaire's Return to My Native Land appeared in Paris just one year after The Black Jacobins was published in London . He reads Césaire's ...
... become useless as slaves . Wage labour will be abolished in Europe in just the same way , as soon as it becomes not only unnecessary for production but in fact a hindrance to it " ( Revolutions 297 ) . In the first volume of Capital ...
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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