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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... turns out , however , that we are seated in a cinema in Trinidad . The narrative transition is yet another instance of ... turn , suffers his own form of wrongness . Gonzales has been fully articulated with the Hollywood appa- ratus for ...
... turn , as we read James's apt paraphrase of Marx at the beginning of The Black Jacobins ( BJ x ) , that among the historical circumstances James speaks of which we must confront are our reading and our writing . Toussaint L'Ouverture ...
... turn , where there is no certainty of employment , far less of being able to rise by energy or Going West as in the old days ” ( AC 127 ) . That the mass media should respond to these new social imperatives with a mode of political and ...
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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