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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A Critical Introduction Aldon Lynn Nielsen. I Spheres of Existence What Maisie Knew Read , read , read . Read till your eyes swim ; get yourselves right . C. L. R. ... Existence: WHAT MAISie Knew Discovering Literature in Trinidad Minty ...
... existence . Brinsley Samaroo , in his introduction to the reprint of the Beacon , has described Gomes's publication as " an anti - Establishment paper , often boycotted by vested interests and under constant attack from the merchant and ...
... existence " ( n.pag . ) . Where the literature of the Old World took the structures of human existence as a given , American writing takes the fundamental unsoundness of human existence as its structuring principle . James is acutely ...
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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