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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... importance of the fact that millions of white Americans were attending , however shallow that attention , to an epic narrative of the lives of black Americans . In the years intervening , few scholars knew of James's importance to the ...
... importance of Africa in the development of West In- dian national consciousness , and the importance of West Indian intellectuals to the emergence of Pan - Africanism as an organized political movement , James gives what might in other ...
... importance of economic developments to the eventual abolition of slavery in the Americas , and the importance of black struggles for liberation to the worldwide movement toward liberation from capitalist hegemony . James saw , in his ...
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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