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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... letters among James's political allies in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s , James's ... letter , dated November 20 , 1865 , in which Marx addresses colonial outrages in Jamaica . " The revolts of the West ...
... letter to Grace Lee dated May 20 , 1949 , and included in the published Raya Dunayevskaya Collection . Lou Turner , a colleague of Dunayevskaya's while she was still alive , and managing editor of the News and Letters paper , returns to ...
... letter to Lee . The strategy Dunayevskaya and Turner adopt in repeating the charge that James got nothing from Philosophy of Mind is an odd one , not only because it seems so quickly contradicted by a reading of the very letter so ...
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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