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Urbane revolutionary : C.L.R. James and the struggle for a new society / Frank Rosengarten.

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Van Pelt Library PR9272.9.J35 Z856 2008
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rosengarten, Frank, 1927-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
James, C. L. R.
James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989--Political and social views.
James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989.
Political and social views.
Criticism and interpretation.
Physical Description:
xiii, 282 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2008]
Summary:
A comprehensive study of the writings of a pivotal Caribbean intellectual
Contents:
Part 1 Marxism and Johnsonism
Chapter 1 From Reformism to Revolutionary Socialism 9
Chapter 2 C. L. R. James's Engagement with Marxism 25
Chapter 3 Johnson Agonistes 46
Chapter 4 The Internal Life of the Johnson-Forest Tendency 62
Chapter 5 Women's Liberation 85
Chapter 6 Revolutionary Struggles in Eastern Europe and Cuba 98
Part 2 National-Popular Politics
Chapter 7 National-Popular Politics and Pan-Africanism 117
Chapter 8 Paths to Socialism 136
Part 3 Literature and Society
Chapter 9 Poetry and Truth in C. L. R. James's Fictional Writings 157
Chapter 10 The Social Criticism of Literature 173
Chapter 11 James's Melville Criticism 192
Chapter 12 American Civilization and the Popular Arts 210
Chapter 13 The Haitian Revolution 220
Chapter 14 Beyond a Boundary 233.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index.
ISBN:
9781934110263
1934110264
OCLC:
133465567

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