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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... question beneath the class question . Though he does not venture an answer in his outline in American Civilization , James also underscores for his audience at the Socialist Workers Party meeting the importance of analyzing the causes ...
... question . For James , such questions demand a rigorously tested political philosophy . That is what he sought all his life to develop , and that is what , at the end of his 1969 update to A History of Negro Revolt , he thought he had ...
... question is a part of the national and not of the ' national ' question . This national minority is most easily distinguishable from the rest of the community by its racial characteristics . Thus the Negro question is a question of race ...
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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