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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... recognize so clearly that his own writing of history was an event in history because , early in his career as a writer , he had recognized reading as an often revolutionary action in history . In the first chapter of The Black Jacobins ...
... recognized , what Cedric Robinson was later to describe as the unusual historical opportunity con- fronted by peoples who seemed everywhere to be oppressed and despised . " Physically and ideologically , ” Robinson has written , “ and ...
... recognized the note . It was one Shannon player calling to another " ( BB 57 ) . The note that James recognized ( which has the rhetorical effect of retroactively making of him a Shannon player ) is the same note that E. M. and W. G. ...
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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