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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A Critical Introduction Aldon Lynn Nielsen. can tell you , Mr. Haynes , it was a real good book . Ai and no mistake . High , high class . But how do men think of such ... tell people . And we know plenty who Mrs. Robinson does MINTY ALLEY 31.
... tell them about it " ( MA 100 ) . Maisie's use of the first - person plural in this account is revealing , for while ... telling this fact is when we remind ourselves that this is said of the house in the yard where Haynes lives , a ...
... tell us that one would do well not to expect excellence in art and on the playing field to be followed by social equality . “ Perhaps , ” James conjectures , “ it is only we on the periphery who think this way " ( BB 93 ) , but there is ...
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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