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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... citizen of the United States . This can mean only one thing : that the Department of Justice now assumes the right to say what a citizen or would - be citizen should study " ( MRC 165 ) . Similarly , it was because James published his ...
... citizens against both the intellectuals who formulated the war policies in Viet Nam and the intellectuals who vocally opposed those policies . Whatever our final judgment may prove to be of James's many state- ments over the years ...
... citizens worked together to agitate for an end to segregation to see the truth of what James says in this passage . Government , like the film industry , is responsive to such mass outpourings as the Civil Rights movement , but its ...
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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