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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... CRITICISM An artistic , a social event does not reflect the C. L. R. James , Cricket It is the age . age . Few critics in America were as well situated as C. L. R. James to recognize the social and historical significance of the ...
... criticism of C. L. R. James remained largely out of print till the last decades of his life , there is considerably more confusion about this aspect of his career than there is about his work as an historian . James's one separately ...
... criticism and self - criticism ' of the elite , the bureaucracy , the party " ( ND 124-25 ) . The Trotskyist modality of this same error is its unwillingness to relinquish its view of itself as a vanguard . This vanguardism propels ...
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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