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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... present . For James , such novelists present their vision " primarily in terms of new types of human character with new desires , new needs , new passions " ( MRC 124 ) . In creating Maisie , James was delineating evolving types of ...
... present . Who among that general public might listen to the plea for an end to colonialism was not immediately clear . Du Bois , writing in 1920 , had quoted “ a great Englishman " to the effect that " there does not exist any real ...
... Present for New Society , Stephen Cumberbatch judged that “ virtually all the ideas contained in the subsequent literature " on West Indian independence had been anticipated in James's first book , that the same could be said regarding ...
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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