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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... dared try that as an exam topic ? ) The essay so excited the schoolmasters that they reprinted it in the school magazine . This and another of James's first juvenile publications , an essay on an historic cricket match , set the pattern ...
... dared not bring the masses into it , as Lenin would infallibly have done sooner rather than later ” ( WR 147 ) . World Revolution , 1917–1936 , is , though , a history of The Rise and Fall of the Communist International , not simply a ...
... dared to dream that black people everywhere might throw off the chains of imperialism and end racist hegemony . Even more than Du Bois , James saw in the revolutionary self - activity of the masses the solution to the problem of his ...
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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