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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... slave dialectic about which Hegel wrote so evocatively is an ancient philosophical paradox , the life - and - death struggle with which the legacy of the actual slave trade marked contemporary political life is resoundingly modern ...
... slave - trade and slavery were the economic basis of the French Revolution " ( BJ 47 ) . He cites the French historian Juarès's remark that it was the fortunes created by the slave trade that “ gave to the bourgeoisie that pride which ...
... slave labor of the United States , then American slavery will be broken together with the American cotton monopoly and the slaves will be emancipated , because they will have become useless as slaves . Wage labour will be abolished in ...
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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