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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... wrote that I knew . No one had ever said that people wrote " ( Buhle and Henry 19 ) . As he grew older , James did encounter precedents for the career he was slowly moving toward in his voluminous and omnivorous readings . Among James's ...
... wrote the history of Caliban's resurrection from the natural prison of Prospero's regard ? ” ( 151 ) . What Harland ... wrote it ( Kas 33 ) , this much he was quite assured of as he wrote , that the daily lives and thoughts of the ...
... wrote . According to John Stewart , these barrack - yards evolved from the earlier estate model of the plantation era ( 104 ) , and their North American counterparts might be the alleyway dwellings and courtyards that once were common ...
Contents
Spheres of EXISTENCE WHAT MAISIE KNEW | 3 |
Minty Alley | 17 |
Preface to Criticism | 35 |
Copyright | |
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