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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... organization itself , followed by the enlarging of International African Opinion . James anticipates a larger black organization growing from the bureau's international nucleus . His practical program centers on unrelenting demands for ...
... organization that had prepared the way for what looked to Europeans like the sudden accession to power of Nkrumah's United Gold Coast Convention . James perceives what the British imperial mythology prevented the citizens of the ...
... organization . America's history was such that " modern society has now reached a stage where it must either turn backwards or women must become free independent human beings , in every way , and the whole sexual relation recreated upon ...
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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