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Format: 1 online resource (304 p.)

ISBN: 9780822382386

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's observations of his own life as revealed to interviewers and close friends, this volume provides an examination of James's childhood and early years as colonial literatteur and his massive contribution to West Indian political-cultural understanding. Moving beyond previous biographical interpretations, the contributors here take up the problem of reading James's texts in light of poststructuralist criticism, the implications of his texts for Marxist discourse, and for problems of Caribbean development.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , PART I. Portraits and Self-Portraits -- , 1. C. L. R. James: A Portrait -- , 2. C. L. R. James on the Caribbean: Three Letters C. L. R. James -- , 3. C. L. R. James: West Indian George Lamming interviewed by Paul Buhle -- , PART II. The Early Trinidadian Years -- , 4. The Audacity of It All: C. L. R. James's Trinidadian Background -- , 5. The Making of a Literary Life C. L. R. James interviewed by Paul Buhle -- , PART III. Textual Explorations -- , 6. Beyond the Categories of the Master Conception: The Counterdoctrine of the Jamesian Poiesis -- , 7. Cricket and National Culture in the Writings of C. L. R. James -- , 8 Caliban as Deconstructionist: C. L. R. James and Post-Colonial Discourse -- , PART IV. Praxis -- , 9. C. L. R. James and the Caribbean Economic Tradition -- , 10. C. L. R. James and Trinidadian Nationalism -- , 11. The Question of the Canon: C. L. R. James and Modern Politics -- , 12. C. L. R. James and the Antiguan Left -- , Appendix: Excerpts from The Life of Captain Cipriani -- , Chronology -- , Glossary -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822382386

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822382386