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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... culture to show the world ” ( 27 ) . ... " But Prospero has not won , " writes George Lamming . “ For . . . this kind of victory would not be possible when the entire enterprise was founded on a Lie " ( 157 ) . Lamming asks , “ What is ...
... cultural studies in the United States , other critics step forward to caution that James's studies of culture may , perhaps should , have a decentering effect upon the enterprise of that emergent field of interpretation . Following the ...
... culture and society , to provide both a possible groundwork for contemporary studies of culture and , as Neil Larsen has argued effectively , an implicit critique of the positive investments cultural studies sometimes have made in ...
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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