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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... hand at the class in what I later recognized as a characteristic gesture , James asked , " Where did William Faulkner come from ? " As the new kid in class I waited to see where a history professor was going with a question about the ...
... hands drove them to prodigies of revolutionary action . They fought an unceasing civil war with the Army authorities and with Jim Crow - minded white soldiers " ( 2 ) . These analyses were , of course , the most natural extension of ...
... hand , as Robert Hill so aptly points out , " James's view on the radical impulse underlying American popular culture stands in . . . marked contrast to the cultural conservatism of the social critiques of mass culture emanating from ...
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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