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Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7510-4
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
The Attachments of C. L. R. James
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Published:August 2015
Chapter 1 focuses on C. L. R James, whose roving political life has made him an exemplary diasporic figure. Re-reading James’s famous account in Beyond a Boundary about his early formation in Trinidad alongside his writings about America—in letters to Constance Webb and the essays that become American Civilization—the chapter demonstrates how James managed competing claims to his national, political, and affective inclinations by mediating his attachments through the bodies of performers—particularly West Indian cricketers and American actresses. It demonstrates the centrality of James’s reliance on performance and affect to craft diasporic belonging, whilst moving beyond existing scholarship to...
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