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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... principles as they worked out in practice cannot be dismissed , least of all today " ( WR 50 ) . This passage seems in retrospect to be a seed from which much of James's later political philosophy would spring . Rejecting Trotsky's ...
... principles and policies that it had proclaimed , he set out at once to lay the foundation of the Third International " ( MP 41 ) . As he sets out upon the work of World Revolution , James finds in front of him a similar landscape . The ...
... principle is given just before his conclusion . It is a principle he held to all his life , that all communities of humans are entitled to political self - determination : “ a people like ours should be free to make its own failures and ...
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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