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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... Land . " James's own fiction , which begins to appear in print only five years after " The Waste Land , " does not signal so abrupt a change in surface style as Eliot's much redacted collage , but what James undertook within the ...
... land for the blacks , " James writes . " There was no such revolution in America " ( NR 27 ) . Instead , the birth of a nation's monopoly capitalism defeated both the working - class whites of the North and the landless blacks of the ...
... land or against a war or to stop Fascism " ( WR 98 ) . So much depends the nature of the leadership that emerges through struggle and the vision in whose name they enlist the powerful forces that have underwritten upon their leadership ...
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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