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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... narratives of what would soon become a recognizable genre , and while it was written around the same time as Minty Alley ... narrative that does not center in any individual character's point of view . This is not a matter of “ epic tone ...
... narrative device used by James to illustrate the essentially worthwhile and vibrant life of the slum community ... narration stages James's lifelong examination of the relationships of individual to class , of the intellectual to the ...
... narrative , and James applied his novelist's skills to its telling . There was from the beginning , though , a contemporary political point to James's historical narration , and while the later printings fail to reproduce the important ...
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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