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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... Hundred in Paris . These prints show a movement arising among the masses of Africans in the colony and culminating in new forms of relationship with the revolutionary government of France , and they are paralleled by the prints honoring ...
... hundred years of slavery , one hundred thousand of them imported into the island within four years , unable to speak a dialect intelligible even to each other . Yet out of this mixed , and , as you say , despicable mass , he forged a ...
... hundred of the leaders of the rebellion were freed and amnestied . He subsequently lowered his demand to fewer than a hundred of the leadership to be freed , yet even this was too much for the colonists to contemplate . " Then and only ...
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SPHERES Of Existence WHAT MAISie Knew | 3 |
AT THE RENDEZVOUS OF VICTORY | 51 |
THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT | 95 |
Copyright | |
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