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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... hold . Along with their maneuvers on policy they have this solid basis of constantly growing material . . . . It is widely spread among the Negro intellectuals " ( 15 ) . Pointing to scattered signs of dissatisfaction among black ...
... hold art in their name ) , but they could and did own prints of modern art , imbuing them with an aura defining them as art as such . When James spoke of Guernica in the course of his lectures on Modern Politics at the Trinidad Public ...
... holds to the conclusion of Minty Alley . For Minty Alley's Haynes , the window draws the boundary of his own ... hold Haynes to the end . There are , as it happens , two panoramic vistas opened before James on the first page of ...
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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