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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... colonial center . That trajectory can be readily traced in two talks given under the same title , “ The Old World and the New , " one of which has been published among James's volumes of selected writings , the other having been ...
... colonial production influenced the political agenda of Abolition , James is clearly right to argue that the labors of the New World Africans created not only plantation wealth but much of the historical circumstances enabling the rise ...
... colonial system , in defiance of all authority , sets him apart both from his fellow West Indians and from the middle - class English who designed his education . It has created a social distance from which he feels he is better able to ...
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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