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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... believe in race as a basis for intellectual dissension . But I believe that it is black men , black men who live in the black community , who are connected with it and have the black experience and are sensitive to it , who are best ...
... believe that the masses of the people read resistantly at all times , reconstructing bourgeois imagery in the form of revolutionary tropes , nor did he believe that the masses were helplessly interpellated within bourgeois ideology ...
... believe that the relationship of base and superstructure produces an art that is a purely symptomatic encoding of economic relationships . He does , nonetheless , believe that a transformation within our social existence must transform ...
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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