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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... course on Caribbean literature offered at Federal City College . As I expressed my admiration for a passage of The Black Jacobins in class one day , Professor Rigsby suggested that I go downstairs and tell it to James himself . Thus ...
... course , James writing under a pseudonym , and his New International article on " The Philosophy of History and Necessity " was itself signed with the pseudonymous initials “ A. A. B. ” Readers who took the advice of the mysterious but ...
... course of civilization itself ” ( 41 ) . That James's theses were disruptive is evident from some of the critical reactions to his book . Flora Grierson , writing in the October 8 , 1938 , issue of the New Statesman and Nation ...
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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