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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... labor . He repeats his thesis of the inherent modernity of that social identity . The labor system that evolved on the plantations “ required that the slaves live together in a social relation far closer than any proletariat of the time ...
... labor being liberated from capital , capital is being liberated from labor ” ( “ Thinking " 43 ) . To paraphrase Derrida paraphrasing Marx , who analyzed so astutely the spectral qualities of money , the shadow of capital is detaching ...
... labor modes in Russia from the time of the October 1917 revolution , detailing the move from the orientation to workers ' power in the Soviets on to the consolidation of Stalinist control and the horrors of the Gulag ; from Lenin's ...
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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