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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... nature of this attack , James is accused of being " far too personal " ( 19 ) . One might have expected a work titled The Case for West Indian Self - Government to be one - sided , and one must wonder how James reacted to being ...
... nature of the racial admixture which he will wish to administer " ( 9 ) . Before closing , James details a litany of errors in logic found in Harland's essay on the science of race . Conceding Harland's eminence in his own field , James ...
... nature mediated , and all symbolism operates by displacement . What James found himself yearning for , still , as he sat in the dark movie house of America , was the possibility of a cinema in which we might read " the permanent mass ...
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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