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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... human personalities , in the way they are presented , in the clash of passions , the struggle for happiness , the avoidance of misery " ( MRC 122 ) . This accounts for James's emphasis upon character and context . In his view , great ...
... human existence " ( n.pag . ) . Where the literature of the Old World took the structures of human existence as a given , American writing takes the fundamental unsoundness of human existence as its structuring principle . James is ...
... human existence " ( BB 211 ) . The cricket match is to James a dramatic spectacle in which the dialec- tical relationships between the one and the many are continually reenacted and continually assessed . This , then , is aesthetic life ...
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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