The C.L.R. James Reader
Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780631184959
The Black Jacobins Reader
Author : Charles Forsdick
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0822373947
Book Description
Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution. In addition to considering the book's literary qualities and its role in James's emergence as a writer and thinker, the contributors discuss its production, context, and enduring importance in relation to debates about decolonization, globalization, postcolonialism, and the emergence of neocolonial modernity. The Reader also includes the reflections of activists and novelists on the book's influence and a transcript of James's 1970 interview with Studs Terkel. Contributors. Mumia Abu-Jamal, David Austin, Madison Smartt Bell, Anthony Bogues, John H. Bracey Jr., Rachel Douglas, Laurent Dubois, Claudius K. Fergus, Carolyn E. Fick, Charles Forsdick, Dan Georgakas, Robert A. Hill, Christian Høgsbjerg, Selma James, Pierre Naville, Nick Nesbitt, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Matthew Quest, David M. Rudder, Bill Schwarz, David Scott, Russell Maroon Shoatz, Matthew J. Smith, Studs Terkel
The C.L.R. James Reader
Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher :
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 1992
Category :
ISBN :
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Beyond a Boundary
Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822313830
Book Description
In C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the sport is cricket and the scene is the colonial West Indies. Always eloquent and provocative, James--the "black Plato," (as coined by the London Times)--shows us how, in the rituals of performance and conflict on the field, we are watching not just prowess but politics and psychology at play. Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founding fathers of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of an unusual and unexpected game, Beyond a Boundary raises, in a warm and witty voice, serious questions about race, class, politics, and the facts of colonial oppression. Originally published in England in 1963 and in the United States twenty years later (Pantheon, 1983), this second American edition brings back into print this prophetic statement on race and sport in society.
Rethinking C.L.R. James
Author : Grant Farred
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781557865991
Book Description
This collection of essays provides a critique of C. L. R. James's contribution to a broad range of intellectual pursuits. The Trinidadian-born James was a political activist in the Caribbean, the US and Britain, as well as being one of the leading figures in the early Pan-African movement. He also wrote extensively on literature, culture, cricket, and marxism. This book engages all these aspects of James's life to demonstrate his centrality to the current debates around the issues of postcoloniality and popular culture. James, for too long unavailable to readers, is presented as an intellectual who participated in several key historical developments of the twentieth century. The book locates him in the history of the earliest struggles against colonialism, but it also clearly shows how his thinking - particularly his interest in nineteenth-century British literature - was shaped by the experience of growing up as a colonial subject in Port-of-Spain. The collection grapples with the paradoxes, the tensions, and ironies that characterized James as much as it shows how creatively he applied the lessons of those ambiguities and contradictions.
Minty Alley
Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 1971
Category :
ISBN : 9781617037252
Book Description
Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket
Author : David Featherstone
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1478002557
Book Description
Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential sports books of all time, C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary is—among other things—a pioneering study of popular culture, an analysis of resistance to empire and racism, and a personal reflection on the history of colonialism and its effects in the Caribbean. More than fifty years after the publication of James's classic text, the contributors to Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket investigate Beyond a Boundary's production and reception and its implication for debates about sports, gender, aesthetics, race, popular culture, politics, imperialism, and English and Caribbean identity. Including a previously unseen first draft of Beyond a Boundary's conclusion alongside contributions from James's key collaborator Selma James and from Michael Brearley, former captain of the English Test cricket team, Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket provides a thorough and nuanced examination of James's groundbreaking work and its lasting impact. Contributors. Anima Adjepong, David Austin, Hilary McD. Beckles, Michael Brearley, Selwyn R. Cudjoe, David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Paget Henry, Christian Høgsbjerg, C. L. R. James, Selma James, Roy McCree, Minkah Makalani, Clem Seecharan, Andrew Smith, Neil Washbourne, Claire Westall
C.L.R. James
Author : Kent Worcester
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780791427521
Book Description
A fascinating, immensely readable biography of one of the most important radical intellectuals of the twentieth century.
Making The Black Jacobins
Author : Rachel Douglas
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478005300
Book Description
C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins remains one of the great works of the twentieth century and the cornerstone of Haitian revolutionary studies. In Making The Black Jacobins, Rachel Douglas traces the genesis, transformation, and afterlives of James's landmark work across the decades from the 1930s on. Examining the 1938 and 1963 editions of The Black Jacobins, the 1967 play of the same name, and James's 1936 play, Toussaint Louverture—as well as manuscripts, notes, interviews, and other texts—Douglas shows how James continuously rewrote and revised his history of the Haitian Revolution as his politics and engagement with Marxism evolved. She also points to the vital significance theater played in James's work and how it influenced his views of history. Douglas shows The Black Jacobins to be a palimpsest, its successive layers of rewriting renewing its call to new generations.
Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook
Author : James Boggs
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 21,99 MB
Release : 2011
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780814332566
Book Description
Collects nearly four decades' worth of writings by Detroit political and labor activist James Boggs.
