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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... published such important early essays as James's study of Arnold Bennett and his examination of Mahatma Ghandi's autobiography . When the Royalian , the magazine of Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain , which had published James's ...
... published in England . It was also the only novel he ever published , as his work was directed increasingly to writings in politics and history . Almost immediately upon his arrival James published his first widely disseminated ...
... published a book that charted in enormous detail the patterns by which revolutions are betrayed , a book that he composed as " a history of principles , their origin , when and why they were departed from , the necessity for their ...
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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