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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... remarks on Native Son in 1940 , but they were published under his pseudonym J. R. Johnson , a thin veil drawn over James's illegal continued presence in the United States . Thousands , too , at one time or another heard James speak in ...
... remarks that “ an artistic medium is a thoroughly artificial construction , through which an individual is able to see and to express the world around him " ( FP 183 ) . His underscoring of the artifice of art is crucial here . James ...
... remarks about the text . In the first place , as he indicated in his 1970 interview with the Black Scholar , previous writers from the West Indies had shown some reluctance to make West Indian society ( or even contemporary European ...
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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