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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... caused it to cling so tenaciously to imperial privilege , and that caused its literary arts to enter a period of decline . In the recorded speech " The Old World and the New , " James offers Shakespeare and Melville as representative ...
... caused Toussaint to set his country on a course that would , under different leadership , lead to complete independence from France . The cause of Abolition also brought Toussaint to war with the British forces , battles that ...
... cause of its own objectives and land for the blacks , " James writes . " There was no such revolution in America " ( NR 27 ) . Instead , the birth of a nation's monopoly capitalism defeated both the working - class whites of the North ...
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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