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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... understand the relationships between independent black struggles and the revolutionary proletariat ( NQ 142 ) . As Marx had developed theory from his examinations of the French Revolution , James believed absolutely , American radicals ...
... understand it inasmuch as they were not ' educated ' enough as yet . They would understand it only too well . That is why such things are not written for the film " ( AC 158 ) . Philistine intellectuals who blame the public tastes for ...
... understanding of the code's imperatives , but , and this may be the most essentialist moment in all of James's work ... understand me either — they asked anxiously if I were enjoying the game . . . . When I played in some friendly games ...
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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