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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... truth to Dupuy's assessment , James did recog- nize and analyze the effects of the rise of these newly propertied classes upon the direction taken by postindependence Haiti . Despite the fact that Toussaint L'Ouverture's documents of ...
... truth , but he was idealistic in the sense that he was persuaded that mankind would inevitably reach a universal , material ideal of social organization that would eliminate economic exploitation and political oppression . In his 1960 ...
... truth of what James says in this passage . Government , like the film industry , is responsive to such mass outpourings as the Civil Rights movement , but its first response is self - preservation : “ Any legislation that is passed ...
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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