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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... effort on the part of the artist or audience " ( AC 146 ) . In " The Star That Would Not Shine , " Hollywood has become a vehicle for miraculous economic salvation , as much as La Divina Pastora was for Anita Perez , rather than a ...
... effort the active collaboration of so many who had proclaimed themselves proletarian revolutionaries is a testament to the power of self - interest and property . Instead of building a social structure in which the armed power of the ...
... effort to synthesize these contradictory commitments , a mass , democratic organization determined to secure the freedom of individuals who had been oppressed as a group . As Du Bois had shown in Black Reconstruction , though , the ...
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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