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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... characters while admitting readers to the characters ' linguistic sphere . The descriptive opening of " Triumph " is the narrative equivalent of the narrow gateway leading into the big yard . It is in the form of a social travelogue ...
... character with new desires , new needs , new passions " ( MRC 124 ) . In creating Maisie , James was delineating evolving types of human characters , individuals who were not content to live out the lives plotted for them by the ...
... characters of the period ( and we must recall how much emphasis James places upon the creation of new types of character when he is judging literary artists ) were individuals who boldly defied reality , and precisely because of the ...
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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