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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... honor for the previously imprisoned scholar . It is not enough today that we read more fully the yet to be explicated figures of confinement that articulate traditions of American literature . We must also , as James did in the last ...
... honoring the abolition and published in 1794 depicts Britain offering money to the French colonies , an offer that is rejected “ through love of liberty . ” Climaxing the political evolution traced in this series of illustrations is a ...
... honors the historical context of the text by returning James's original title . Still , this publication of the work remains very much a political action undertaken by a determined organization , the Race Today Collective . Their brief ...
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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