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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... turned up useful treasures . As he read in the collected writings of Wendell Phillips , for one , he came across a passage that must have seemed particularly propitious to a political writer such as James , who was even then in ...
... turned it up in a used book store , or had it loaned to them by a friend . ( For many years I made use of a xerox copy of the text that James had permitted me to make ) . Fugitive as the text may have been for so many decades , readers ...
... turned its attention to protest against hiring discrimination in the colleges of New York City , and James contributed his advice through a column in the newspaper Labor Action . When the coordinating committee approached the City ...
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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