UID:
almafu_9959677605502883
Format:
1 online resource (306 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-06273-9
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9786613062734
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0-8223-8238-5
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Content:
For more than half a century, C. L. R. James (1901-1989)-""the Black Plato,"" as coined by the London Times-has been an internationally renowned revolutionary thinker, writer, and activist. Born in Trinidad, his lifelong work was devoted to understanding and transforming race and class exploitation in his native West Indies, as well as in Britain and the United States. In C. L. R. James's Caribbean, noted scholars examine the roots of both James's life and oeuvre in connection with the economic, social, and political environment of the West Indies.Drawing upon James
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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C.L.R. James : a portrait / Stuart Hall -- C.L.R. James on the Caribbean : three letters / C.L.R. James -- C.L.R. James : West Indian / George Lamming interviewed by Paul Buhle -- The audacity of it all : C.L.R. James's Trinidadian background / Selwyn Cudjoe -- The making of a literary life / C.L.R. James interviewed by Paul Buhle -- Beyond the categories of the master conception : the counterdoctrine of the Jamesian poiesis / Sylvia Wynter -- Cricket and national culture in the writings of C.L.R. James / Neil Lazarus -- Caliban as deconstructionist : C.L.R. James and post-colonial discourse / Paget Henry and Paul Buhle -- C.L.R. James and the Caribbean economic tradition / Paget Henry -- C.L.R. James and Trinidadian nationalism / Walton Look Lai -- The question of the canon : C.L.R. James and modern politics / Kent Worcester --C.L.R. James and the Antiguan left / Paget Henry.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-1244-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-1231-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822382386
