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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... freedom , the planters felt compelled to inhuman measures to keep the slaves in the fields and at work . “ It is this , " James writes with the air of one imparting the most common of sense , “ that explains the unusual spectacle of ...
... freedom and democracy for black people . James believes that Haiti's people did not want the massacre ; " all they wanted was freedom , and independence seemed to promise that " ( BJ 373–74 ) . The transformation of revolutionary mass ...
... freedom of the individual and its majoritarian faith in the utilitarian commitment to the greatest good for the greatest number , the same contradictions James's friend Ralph Ellison examines so poetically in his many essays collected ...
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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