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Cookie akzeptieren- University Press of Mississippi
- 2013
- Taschenbuch
- 228 Seiten
- ISBN 9781617038464
A critical analysis of writings of a founder of the Pan-African revolution C. L .R. James, the Trinidad-born novelist, critic, historian, philosopher, and revolutionary political activist, has proved to be as controversial in death as he was in life. Throughout his career, James was committed to a belief in the transformative powers of language, and he worked tirelessly as a writer and a speaker for the causes of black liberation and proletarian revolution. Even James's opponents within the radical movements thought of him, in the words of James P. Canon, as the "lyrical historian of our movement." Though orthodox Trotskyites were wrong when they declared that James's political organization "started and finished as a purely literary tendency," there can be no doubt that James and the colleagues he drew into the movement understood and valued the revolutionary potential of the written word. In C. L.
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