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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... literature as a social form , responsive to the transformations within the social world of which it is a part . In his later letters to Constance Webb he observes quite simply that " Shakespeare and the Elizabethans needed a new verse ...
... literature . Pull them out and English literature suffers tremendously ” ( RV 148 ) . Harris's own novels are easily as strange in comparison to most British novels at midcentury as Joyce's Ulysses was in comparison to the most popular ...
... literature to political consciousness as it was a transition to the literature of political consciousness , from a potential career as a novelist to a vocation in an equally demanding form of writing . James continued his avid interest ...
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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