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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... thought without ever arresting that thought within an atemporal , confining , a priori mode of criticism . But to say that there cannot be a totalizing poetics of James's texts is not to say that there are no describable features that ...
... thought about the past of slavery and colonialism . For one thing , though the triangle trade “ is an instance of programmed accumulation of wealth such as the world has rarely seen , " any number of earlier historians had managed not ...
... thought he had located in the vision of Julius Nyerere . James held that there were two major questions that had to be addressed by those struggling for the liberation of black people . The first was the question of how to seize power ...
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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