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C.L.R. James: A Critical Introduction » Read Now
by Aldon Lynn Nielsen. 206 pgs.

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A critical analysis of writings of a founder of the Pan-African revolution.
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C.L.R. James's Caribbean » Read Now
by Paget Henry, Paul Buhle. 290 pgs.

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...C. L. R. JAMESS CARIBBEAN C. L. R. JAMES CARIBEAN Edited by Paget...0-8223-1244-I pbk. : alk. paper 1. James, C. L. R. Cyril Lionel Robert , 1901---Homes and...
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C.L.R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence » Read Now
by Nicole King. 168 pgs.

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C. L. R. James (1901-1989), one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century, expressed his postcolonial and socialist philosophies in fiction, speeches, essays, and book-length scholarly discourses. However, the majority of academic attention given to James keeps the diverse mediums...
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C. L. R. James (1901-1989), one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century, expressed his postcolonial and socialist philosophies in fiction, speeches, essays, and book-length scholarly discourses. However, the majority of academic attention given to James keeps the diverse mediums of James's writing separate, focuses on his work as a political theorist, and subordinates his role as a fiction writer.
This book, however, seeks to change such an approach to studying James. Defining creolization as a process by which European, African, Amerindian, Asian, and American cultures are amalgamated to form new hybrid identities and cultures, Nicole King uses this process as a means to understanding James's work and life. She argues that, throughout his career, whether writing a short story or a political history, James articulated his attempt to produce revolutionary, radical discourses with a consistent methodology.
James, a Trinidad-born scholar who migrated to England and then to the United States and who described himself both as a black radical and a Victorian intellectual, serves as a definitive model of creolization.
King argues that James's writings also fit the model of creolization, for each is influenced by diverse types of discourses. James rarely wrote from within the confines of a single discipline, instead choosing to make the layers of history, literature, philosophy, and political theory coalesce in order to make his point. As his West Indian and Western European influences converge in his work and life, he creates texts that are difficult to confine to a specific category or discipline. No matter which writerly medium he uses, James was preoccupied withhow to represent the individual personality and at the same time represent the community.
The C. L. R. James that emerges from King's study is a man made more compelling and more human because of his complicated, multilayer
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Marxism for Our Times: C.L.R. James on Revolutionary Organization » Read Now
by C. L. R. James, Martin Glaberman. 212 pgs.

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The writings of a Marxist at work.
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Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings (includes "Black Power and Stokely" by C. L. R. James) » Read Now
by Charles Lemert. 674 pgs.

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"A rich, highly textured, historically sweeping, & strikingly inclusive collection that aims to reconstruct, perhaps for the first time, the actual dialogue of contemporary social thought." Jeffrey Alexander University of California at Los Angeles "Charles Lemert captures the surfacing of multiple...
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"A rich, highly textured, historically sweeping, & strikingly inclusive collection that aims to reconstruct, perhaps for the first time, the actual dialogue of contemporary social thought." Jeffrey Alexander University of California at Los Angeles "Charles Lemert captures the surfacing of multiple theoretical voices in the postmodern era. No theory course should be without Social Theory." Steve Seidman State University of New York at Albany
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The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature ("Triumph" by C.L.R. James begins on p. 84 and "Discovering Literature in Trinidad" by C.L.R. James begins on p. 163) » Read Now
by Alison Donnell, Sarah Lawson Welsh. 544 pgs.

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The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature is an outstanding compilation of over seventy primary and secondary texts of writing from the Caribbean. Locating key writers within a specifically Caribbean framework, the editors Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh demonstrate that these singular...
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The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature is an outstanding compilation of over seventy primary and secondary texts of writing from the Caribbean. Locating key writers within a specifically Caribbean framework, the editors Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh demonstrate that these singular voices have emerged not out of a cultural void or sparse literary background, but out of a wealth of literary tradition which until now was unknown or critically neglected. Writers from 1900 to the present, both famous and less well-known, are given a voice in this remarkable anthology which encompasses poetry, short stories, essays, articles and interviews. Amongst the many represented here are: * C.L.R. James * George Lamming * Jean Rhys * Benjamin Zephaniah * Claude McKay * Jamaica Kincaid * Sylvia Wynter * Derek Walcott * David Dabydeen * Grace Nichols The editors provide an accessible historical and cultural introduction to the writings, making this volume an ideal teaching tool as well as a fascinating collection for anyone interested in the literature of the Caribbean.
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Radical Caribbean: From Black Power to Abu Bakr (Chap. Seven "Rereading The Black Jacobins: James, the Dialectic and the Revolutionary Conjuncture") » Read Now
by Brian Meeks. 158 pgs.

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What's My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals (Chap. 2 "C. L. R. James, Marginal Intellectual") » Read Now
by Grant Farred. 317 pgs.

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Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean: Continuing Aspects of British and French Dominion ("The Social and Political Thought of Aimé Césaire and C.L.R. James: Some Comparisons" begins on p. 201) » Read Now
by Paul Sutton. 266 pgs.

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International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement » Read Now
by Robert J. Alexander. 1128 pgs.

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...and historical memoirs of such people as James Cannon and Georges Vereeken of Belgium...Trotskyism in South Africa. Professor James Jupp aided me in establishing my...
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Thinking and Acting Dialectically: C.L.R. James, the American Years, in Monthly Review » Read Now
by Grace Lee Boggs. 9 pgs.

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Professional Revolutionary C.L.R. James, in American Visions » Read Now
by Scott Mclemee. 1 pgs.

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C.L.R. James and the Trinidad & Tobago Intellectual Tradition, Or Not Learning Shakespeare Under a Mango Tree, in New Left Review » Read Now
by Selwyn R. Cudjoe. 12 pgs.

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Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook » Read Now
by Daryl Cumber Dance. 532 pgs.

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"Even when available elsewhere, information on these 50 English-language authors is sparse; the in-depth treatment here includes biography, description of major works and themes, summary of critical reception, and an exhaustive bibliography of works by and about each author. Both academic and public...
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"Even when available elsewhere, information on these 50 English-language authors is sparse; the in-depth treatment here includes biography, description of major works and themes, summary of critical reception, and an exhaustive bibliography of works by and about each author. Both academic and public libraries will want to accept this invitation to another world." Library Journal
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