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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... common men , organize for them , will readily die for them - do everything for them , except meet them as men . Melville described common people as they have been described in no modern literature ; but he saw no way for them to form a ...
... common rendezvous . " That is to say , while such master terms as “ national identity " and " negritude " would seem to suggest an inescapable essentialism , James sees them as tropes , metaphors with which people give names to that ...
... common at the common impasse to which American capitalism has delivered them . Their desires and frustrations are represented by a mode of displacement in their popular arts , by aesthetic acts of substitution . James sincerely believes ...
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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