C.L.R. James: A Life
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375421009 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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If at times too reverent glossing over, for instance, James's abandoning his first wife in Trinidad when he went abroad Dhondy avoids hagiography and manages to wed James's political life (he founded Trinidad's Workers and Farmers Party and was an inspiration to the Black Power movement) to his writing career, which prefigured what we now call multiculturalism. Naipaul. There James worked with the Communist Party, wrote voraciously, formulated a new theory (now an academic discipline) that explicated the political import of popular culture but McCarthyism forced him to leave in 1953. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Six years later, he published The Black Jacobins, about the Haitian slave revolts, and moved to the United States. From Publishers Weekly Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989), the influential political theoretician and literary critic, was born into a Trinidadian family of "the emergent black professional class."
Thereafter he divided his time between London and Trinidad (where he served as Secretary of the West Indies Federal Labor Party) and, until his death in 1989, wrote works of both fiction and nonfiction that would profoundly influence the Black Power movement in the United States and independence movements in Africa and the West Indies.Farrukh Dhondy knew James personally and was given access to his papers. A long-overdue critical appreciation of the West Indian historian and political activist who played a towering role in the cause of Pan-Africanism in the twentieth century.Born in Trinidad in 1901, Cyril Lionel Robert James was a precocious polymath all his life. He embraced Marxism while living in England during the 1930s, during which time he published, among other works, The Case for West Indian Self Government and his masterpiece, The Black Jacobins.James lived in the United States from 1939 until he was expelled during the McCarthy terror for his political activities. By the time he was a teenager and already a certified teacher, he had embarked on a lifelong advocacy for the Trinidadian oppressed. The result is a biography that is a revelation of the life an
Absolutely Awful J. Smallridge Sorry, but this book is nothing but self-indulgent drivel. C. L.R. James deserved a better telling of his life that was not interrupted by an insignificant author's musings.