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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... hope his study of the Haitian revolution's success would continue to inspire liberation movements , while some of the African nations had now to contend with the dangers and uncertainties of neocolonial repression and domination , and ...
... hope that A History of Negro Revolt will , in 1985 as it had in 1938 , lead to informed and critical political actions in a way that , in their reading , few other histories have . The fact that two subsequent generations of activists ...
... hope is to succeed in the building of a fourth . The real importance of the Russian Revolution for James is that it was an attempt to found a “ Socialist society , resting on an economy in which private ownership was abolished " ( WR ...
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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