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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... learned in his studies that the French colonist Hilliard d'Auberteuil had written in 1784 of the minds of enslaved Africans that " no species of men has more intelligence , " only to see his book banned by a hegemonic authority that ...
... learned from literature , and as James himself learned from Marx , so did other writers . Literary works were not just answers to what the age demanded , they helped to shape the age and its demands . They were events in history , not ...
... learned to search out such patterns even in societies , such as nineteenth - century San Domingo , that did not appear to follow the industrial models sketched by Marx . Writing in Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution , James concedes that ...
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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