| C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain Contributor(s): Høgsbjerg, Christian (Author) |
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ISBN: 082235618X ISBN-13: 9780822356189 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 818.520 |
| LCCN: 2013026379 |
| Series: C.L.R. James Archives |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.90 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain chronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer 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 from liberal humanism to revolutionary socialism. Rejecting the "imperial Britishness" he had absorbed growing up in a crown colony in the British West Indies, he became a leading anticolonial activist and Pan-Africanist thinker. Christian H gsbjerg reconstructs the circumstances and milieus in which James wrote works including his magisterial study The Black Jacobins. First published in 1938, James's examination of the dynamics of anticolonial revolution in Haiti continues to influence scholarship on Atlantic slavery and abolition. H gsbjerg contends that during the Depression C. L. R. James advanced public understanding of the African diaspora and emerged as one of the most significant and creative revolutionary Marxists in Britain. |