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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... ideas of freedom crystallized around a political conviction : we should be free to govern ourselves . I said nothing to anyone . After all , I was working for the government . When I told brother some my of my ideas his only comment was ...
... ideas from books while leaving the art behind . For James , such utilitarian readings were fatal because , as he writes in Mariners , Renegades and Castaways , " the social and political ideas in a great work of imagination are embodied ...
... ideas ' come out of Trotskyism ; as ideas they could have come from nowhere else ” ( ND 151 ) . << One error shared by Trotskyism and Stalinism is the substitution of the consciousness of the party as subject for the party as ...
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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