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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... individuals who boldly defied reality , and precisely because of the medium in which they appeared they were able to ... individual distanced from all others . What the gangster and the star have in common is that they exist apart from ...
... individual as star James sees as a perversion of the democratic desires of individuals . Where more recognized public intellectuals of the period might chide audiences for their philistinism , James charges those critics with a far ...
... individual and its majoritarian faith in the utilitarian commitment to the greatest good for the greatest number , the same contradictions James's friend Ralph Ellison examines so poetically in his many essays collected in Shadow and ...
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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