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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... look black while writing Infernoes ” ( 317 ) . C. L. R. James spends a good portion of Mariners , Renegades and Castaways contemplating Melville's ambiguous creation . Pierre , too , is a writer imprisoned , but one whose example is ...
... look at a picture could be a friend of James . James's own life had been transformed by reading , and so had the life of Toussaint L'Ouverture , the subject of James's best - known book . The other themes that pass through all of ...
... look , they fought heroically for freedom . But that the Negroes were a class , in production , at a certain stage ; that they made special contributions to the struggle , conditioned by their social role — these things are absent from ...
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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