The Essays of C. L. R. James (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: C. L. R. James
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: History, Social reform, Politics, Socialism, Literature, West Indies, Criticism
Cyril Lionel Robert James was the first major West Indian writer to publish in Great Britain, but he was much more than that. In his long life, C. L. R. James was a historian (his 1938 account of the Haitian revolution, The Black Jacobins, is a classic); a novelist (Minty Alley, 1936); a leftist activist and thinker (he debated Marxist theory with Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky during Trotsky’s exile in Mexico); a pan-Africanist (Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, 1977); an original literary critic (Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways, 1953, discusses the...
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