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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... economy . Writing in his column in the Militant , James said , " In bourgeois society there is no continuity for the workers between their economic ties and their political lives . When a worker goes to the polls to vote ... The man in ...
... economic and social structure of the United States [ had ] created so huge an apparatus of economic , social and political institutions that the freedom of the individual except in the most abstract terms does not exist " ( AC 106 ) ...
... Economic Research , 1982 . Lamming , George . The Pleasures of Exile . 1960. London : Allison and Busby , 1984 . Larsen , Neil . “ Negativities of the Popular : C. L. R. James and the Limits of ' Cultural Studies . ' ” Farred 85-102 ...
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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