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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... continued critical engagement with literature , largely because of the fugitive nature of James's publications and of his life . Thousands of people read James's remarks on Native Son in 1940 , but they were published under his ...
... continued just months later in “ Stalinism and Negro History . " He quotes at length from a 1948 Phylon article contributed by E. Kaiser , of the Schomburg collection , in which Kaiser had attacked Aptheker's historiography as ...
... capitalism operate ” ( SC 49 ) . This , in James's estimation , is what Trotsky had never entirely grasped , and what Trotsky's continued commitment to the belief that a workers ' state equals nationalized property NOTES ON DIALECTICS 117.
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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