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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... Party history are the same errors that lead to the Party's propaganda slogan of self - determination for a black belt region of North America : “ Aptheker consistently refers to the heroic qualities of the Negroes , their struggles for ...
... Party in 1947 , and from the Socialist Workers Party after that . James posits Stalinism and Trotskyism as two offshoots of an “ arrested " Leninism . Both were developments which bore the traces of the Leninism from which they sprang ...
... party - building ” activities , and , despite all that building of the party and preparing of the working classes for revolution under the party's leadership , continual splitting into smaller and smaller " groupuscules , " as the ...
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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