C.L.R. James
Title | C.L.R. James PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Buhle |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2017-10-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1786634538 |
A new edition of C.L.R. James’s authorized biography C.L.R. James was a man of prodigious and varied accomplishments. He was a protean twentieth-century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a pioneering scholar of slave revolt; a leading voice of Pan-Africanism; a peripatetic revolutionary and scholar active in US and UK radical movements; a novelist, playwright, and critic; and one of the premier writers on cricket and sports. This intellectual portrait was written by James’s longtime interlocutor and comrade Paul Buhle, and initially published in 1988. With a new final chapter, updated bibliography, a new foreword by historian Robin D.G. Kelley and a new afterword by Paul Buhle and the philosopher Lawrence Ware, this long-awaited revised edition of a classic biography will be a key resource in the James revival.
Beyond a Boundary
Title | Beyond a Boundary PDF eBook |
Author | Cyril Lionel Robert James |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780822313830 |
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
Title | C.L.R. James PDF eBook |
Author | Kent Worcester |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780791427521 |
A fascinating, immensely readable biography of one of the most important radical intellectuals of the twentieth century.
C. L. R. James
Title | C. L. R. James PDF eBook |
Author | Aldon Lynn Nielsen |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2010-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781617030888 |
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.
Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket
Title | Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket PDF eBook |
Author | David Featherstone |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2018-10-25 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1478002557 |
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
Title | Letters from London PDF eBook |
Author | Cyril Lionel Robert James |
Publisher | Signal Books |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781902669618 |
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
Title | C.L.R. James PDF eBook |
Author | Kent Worcester |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780791427514 |
A fascinating, immensely readable biography of one of the most important radical intellectuals of the twentieth century.