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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... race , has given to the fund of knowledge as much as any other race ; that the raw material of his intelligence is as highly developed as the European's , is so manifestly absurd as not to warrant the slightest consideration ” ( 27 ) ...
... racial categorization " ( BJ 402 ) , Césaire's " negritude " can continue to be of use as a model , for it metaphorically names " what one race brings to the common rendezvous . " That is to say , while such master terms as “ national ...
... race and not of ' race ' " ( NQ 71 ) . That statement exactly parallels the often cited remarks in Black Jacobins warning of the perils attendant upon either overestimating or underes- timating the role of race in the battle against ...
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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