Rethinking C.L.R. James: A Critical Reader - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1557865981 ISBN 13: 9781557865984

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 1995

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1557865981
• ISBN 13: 9781557865984
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 225
• Redattore: Farred Grant
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