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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... possible explanation for all the ambiguous details ” ( 224 ) . James's studies of history had brought him to confront many such ambiguities in the past . What more tragic ironies can be found in history than the response of ...
... possible for him to exist , through aristocratic patronage , as an intellectual of the medieval type , while at the same time working in a commercial milieu as one of the first intellectuals " whose life has been shaped by the ...
... possible to take still the last train after the last train — and still be late to an end of history ” ( 15 ) . Derrida , being well read and of a certain age , remembers that period of the 1950s when eschatological themes were " bread ...
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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