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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... interest in the character of the individuals who comprise those masses , that , as Lamming puts it , “ C. L. R. James shows us Caliban as Prospero had never known him " ( 119 ) . Despite the internal dissension of the group of ...
... interest in tracking Marx's study of events in the Caribbean . Raya Dunayevskaya wrote a letter to James on June 7 , 1950 , in which she reports on her studies of the Marx - Engels correspondence . She tells James of a significant ...
... interest of domination and exploitation . In the prologue to Black Jacobins he says of the earliest French colonists ... interest in the Negro Question in the United States " ( NQ 130 ) . Marx's interest in the subject of slavery is ...
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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