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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A Critical Introduction Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Some readers may be puzzled to discover that there is already a critical anthology titled Rethinking C. L. R. James . Coming just one year after the publication of Selwyn Cudjoe and William ...
A Critical Introduction Aldon Lynn Nielsen. the novel was a mode of social and political action , one with far - reaching cultural consequences . In James's reading , at the end of Bigger Thomas's story " Bigger stands in the dock and is ...
A Critical Introduction Aldon Lynn Nielsen. The year before Picasso executed that drawing , James had published in England the novel he had written in Trinidad , Minty Alley , a novel that closes on a polysemous scene of the colonial ...
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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