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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... believed that American revolutionaries could learn from study of the Civil War how to understand the relationships between independent black struggles and the revolutionary proletariat ( NQ 142 ) . As Marx had developed theory from his ...
... believed that there must be an alternative to the old slaveries , and he believed , even on the brink of holocaust , that the dialectical motions of human history would bring that alternative out of the pages of books and 98 AT THE ...
... believed that a highly developed aesthetic sense was the peculiar property of the propertied classes . The of mechanical reproducibility brought about a radical transformation in the accessibility of art . Those same cheap reproductions ...
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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