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Beyond a Boundary

Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822313830
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Beyond a Boundary written by Cyril Lionel Robert James and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

C.L.R. James

Author : Kent Worcester
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791427521
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book C.L.R. James written by Kent Worcester and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, immensely readable biography of one of the most important radical intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket

Author : David Featherstone
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478002557
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket written by David Featherstone and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Letters from London

Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Signal Books
ISBN 13 : 9781902669618
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Letters from London written by Cyril Lionel Robert James and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals CLR James' first encounter with the colonial metropolis and the values that had already shaped his intellectual development in Trinidad. A resurrected 'classic', this book provides a hitherto inaccessible picture of the young man during his formative period.

C. L. R. James

Author : Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617030888
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book C. L. R. James written by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of C. L. R. James's writings is the first to look at them as literature and not as theory. This sustained analysis of his major published works places them in the context of his less well-known writings and offers an encompassing critique of one of the African diaspora's most significant thinkers and writers. Here the author of Black Jacobins, World Revolution, A History of Pan-African Revolt,, Beyond a Boundary, and the lyric novel Minty Alley is seen not only as among the great political philosophers but also as the literary artist that he remained, from his first writings in his native Trinidad through his underground years in America, to his final essays and speeches in London. The writings of James have inspired revolutionaries on three continents. They have altered the course of historiography, shown that way toward independent black political struggles, and established a base for much of today's study of culture. This study evaluates them as powerful works of literature.

CLR James

Author : John L. Williams
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9781472130129
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book CLR James written by John L. Williams and published by Constable. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: , Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, inspired Kwame Nkrumah, and was a profound influence on the British Black Power movement. And yet by the late 1970s, CLR James was all but forgotten. The books he had written over the past half century were nearly all out of print. There were a few circles in which his name rang a bell: serious students of Black history; obsessive cricket fans. But that was it. When he died in Brixton in 1989, CLR James was internationally famous - lauded as the greatest of Black British intellectuals: the 'Black Plato', according to The Times. The ideas he put forward in his own time - of the importance of identity alongside class, of rebellion coming from below, of the leading roles of Black people, women and youth in political struggle - have gradually made their way to the forefront of our political thinking. His two great books, The Black Jacobins and Beyond a Boundary, still have the power to change readers' understanding of the world today. But while CLR James's work has been much examined, his long and remarkable life story has often been overlooked. For the first time, in a biography full of original research, human drama and keen insight, John L. Williams unveils the rich and compelling story of an intellectual giant. In doing so, he firmly establishes the importance of CLR James for the twenty-first century - if Black Britain has had a presiding genius, it remains CLR James.,

C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain

Author : Christian Høgsbjerg
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822376962
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain written by Christian Høgsbjerg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain chronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C. L. R. James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. It reveals the radicalizing effect of this critical period on James's intellectual and political trajectory. During this time, James turned from liberal humanism to revolutionary socialism. Rejecting the "imperial Britishness" he had absorbed growing up in a crown colony in the British West Indies, he became a leading anticolonial activist and Pan-Africanist thinker. Christian Høgsbjerg reconstructs the circumstances and milieus in which James wrote works including his magisterial study The Black Jacobins. First published in 1938, James's examination of the dynamics of anticolonial revolution in Haiti continues to influence scholarship on Atlantic slavery and abolition. Høgsbjerg contends that during the Depression C. L. R. James advanced public understanding of the African diaspora and emerged as one of the most significant and creative revolutionary Marxists in Britain.

Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways

Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780850315745
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways written by Cyril Lionel Robert James and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

C. L. R. James and Creolization

Author : Nicole King
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604736011
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book C. L. R. James and Creolization written by Nicole King and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 with how 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, multilayered, and sometimes contradictory allegiances.

C. L. R. James's Caribbean

Author : Paget Henry
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822382385
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book C. L. R. James's Caribbean written by Paget Henry and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

C.L.R. James

Author : Kent Worcester
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791427514
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book C.L.R. James written by Kent Worcester and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, immensely readable biography of one of the most important radical intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Minty Alley

Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617037252
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Minty Alley written by Cyril Lionel Robert James and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1971 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism

Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608468645
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism written by Cyril Lionel Robert James and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CLR James and Revolutionary Marxism collects some of the most important, but difficult to obtain, articles from the legendary Trinidadian-Marxist.

The Black Jacobins

Author : C.L.R. James
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593687337
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Black Jacobins written by C.L.R. James and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.

C. L. R. James on the 'negro Question'

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617030871
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book C. L. R. James on the 'negro Question' written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of James' major essays, theoretical writings and analyses, written about African-American topics between 1939 and 1950, shows his characteristic Marxist perspective on black liberation. McLemee offers a new perspective on James' thought.

Making The Black Jacobins

Author : Rachel Douglas
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478005300
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Making The Black Jacobins written by Rachel Douglas and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

CLR James

Author : Dave Renton
Publisher : HopeRoad
ISBN 13 : 190844603X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book CLR James written by Dave Renton and published by HopeRoad. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ;'Books about CLR James abound, but this is a particularly good one. It's lucidly written, full of narrative interest and explores areas of the great Caribbean man's life and struggles that have rarely been a point of focus.' Chris Searle, The Morning Star Known as 'The Cricketing Marxist', Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-89) was one of the leading black intellectuals of the 20th century, a Marxist theorist of the first rank, and also one of the finest writers on cricket, with his legendary book Beyond a Boundary .This seeming paradox is reflected in other areas of his life and work: the product of a British-style education and fanatical cricketer who never abandoned the values the sport inculcated in him, he was a Trotskyite expelled from the USA during the McCarthy era who was a friend and inspiration to a generation of leaders of newly-independent African countries such as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Julius Nyrere of Tanzania.Described in his lifetime as 'the black Hegel' and 'the black Plato', his book on the 18th-century slave revolt in Haiti, The Black Jacobins , is one of the great historical works of the 20th century, yet he was never comfortable with the idea of 'Black Studies'. In this fascinating new study of this seminal thinker, Dave Renton hopes to 'persuade Marxists of the joys of cricket, and followers of cricket of the calibre of James and of James' Marxism'.