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C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Høgsbjerg, Christian.
- H²gsbjerg, Christian., Author.
- Series:
- C. L. R. James Archives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989--Homes and haunts--England--London.
- James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989--Political and social views.
- James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989.
- Local Subjects:
- James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989--Homes and haunts--England--London.
- James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989--Political and social views.
- James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain chronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and cultural theorist C. L. R. James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. It reveals the radicalizing effect of this critical period on James's intellectual and political trajectory. During this time, James turned to revolutionary socialism and militant Pan-Africanism Rejecting the 'imperial Britishness' he had absorbed growing up in a Crown Colony in the British West Indies, he emerged as a leading anticolonial activist. Christian Høgsbjerg reconstructs the circ
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction. "Revolutionaries, Artists and Wicket-Keepers": C. L. R. James's Place in History; One. "We Lived According to the Tenets of Matthew Arnold": Colonial Victorianism and the Creative Realism of the Young C. L. R. James; Two. "Red Nelson": The English Working Class and the Making of C. L. R. James; Three. "Imperialism Must Be Destroyed": C. L. R. James, Race, and Revolutionary Politics; Four. "The Humbler Type of Cricket Scribe" : C. L. R. James on Sport, Culture, and Society
- Five. "There Is No Drama Like the Drama of History": The Black Jacobins, Toussaint Louverture, and the Haitian RevolutionConclusion. "To Exploit a Larger World to Conquer": C. L. R. James's Intellectual Conquest of Imperial Britain; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822376965
- 0822376962
- OCLC:
- 867662232
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