Search Results for C. L. R James

...Bill Schwarz Small Axe Incorporated 2003 C. L. R. James and George Lamming: The Measure of Historical Time Bill Schwarz I believe deep in my bones that the mad impulse which drove Powell to his criminal defeat was largely my doing. I will not have this explained away by talk...

...Christian Høgsbjerg This essay examines C. L. R. James's relationship to the heroic and inspiring arc of labour rebellions that swept the colonial British Caribbean during the 1930s. The essay begins by discussing James's 1932 work putting the case for West Indian self-government, The Life...

...Raj Chetty This essay approaches the stage versions of Toussaint Louverture (1934) and The Black Jacobins (1967), first, to emphasize the role of C. L. R. James’s collaborations in the creation of the plays, and second, to argue that the latter version of the play presents a radical feminism...

... life. And what is further surprising and fascinating for anyone concerned with Caribbean intellectual traditions is that the third of these four narratives is about C. L. R. James (the others concern Vasily Grossman, the Russian Jewish novelist; Sandra Day O’Connor, the American jurist; and Denis Faul...

..., is a deeply poignant and, as of yet, a generally unacknowledged part of his legacy. The Hearts of Men? Gender in the Late C. L. R. James Aaron Kamugisha A man s country may be cramped or vast according to the size of his heart. Simone Schwarz-Bart, The Bridge of Beyond You know, men don t really discuss...

...Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard Taken together, C. L. R. James’s 1933 political pamphlet The Case for West-Indian Self Government and 1936 novel Minty Alley reveal the author’s competing visions of relations between Africans and Indians in the British West Indies. In The Case for West-Indian Self...

...H. Reuben Neptune This review essay asserts that Aaron Kamugisha’s 2019 Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition , for all its brilliance, does not do justice to the thought of C. L. R. James, especially in relation to gender. After claiming that Kamugisha...

... on by autonomists (such as Paulo Virno, Bifo, and, again, Negri himself). 13 These self-understandings elide the connections between the development of radical Italian Marxism and the mid-twentieth-century work of C. L. R. James. Typically, scholarly treatments of Negri only gesture at the influence James had...

... such as Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines in C. L. R James’s 1967 dramatic adaptation of his 1938 The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution . Instead, it examines a critical but often neglected character: a fictional woman named Celestine. In a play obsessed...

..., such imaginaries are premised on that which is already intelligible and draw on standing models of social organization and political association in putting forward claims for an alternative future. This essay examines black Marxists thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, C. L. R. James, Aimé Césaire, Walter Rodney...

... to caution that it is always important to ask about the ideological construction of the theory-problems in our scholarship. The essay then turns to a discussion of the problem-space that makes intelligible why and how C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins is constructed as an exploration of the Haitian...

... the formation of cultural studies in Europe and North America. To this end, the author sketches a number of overlapping traditions of writing on culture in the Caribbean that take us from the late nineteenth century and considers the work of two Caribbean theorists, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter...

... formation. The case resurfaces (m)other, ressentiment , hybridity, exile, and the notion of postkilling as the terms of this reexamination. Using Homi Bhabha and Achille Mbembe, Griffin reconsiders C. L. R. James's construction of West Indian identity as the preparedness for violence and victory in terms...

...Mimi Sheller This essay reviews Aaron Kamugisha’s reading of the works of C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter in his 2019 book Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition . Kamugisha issues a resounding call to reenergize the radical Caribbean intellectual...

...: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness , David Austin has compiled the surviving transcripts of this historic gathering, including the speeches by Walter Rodney, C. L. R. James, Stokely Carmichael, and Richard B. Moore, and he provides an extended introduction locating...

... as a manifestation of the black radical tradition and a critical involvement with socialism. Drawing on C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, it argues that black freedom struggles in the Americas and Europe, including slave revolts, have been an essential part of the history of labor and freedom struggles. It also...

... demonstrates how by turning to two of the Caribbean’s major thinkers, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, and their far-less-studied Caribbean writings, Kamugisha takes seriously the centering of Caribbean thinkers in their own histories of political becoming. The essay ends with sustained focus on Kamugisha’s...

..., Edward Baugh, Sylvia Wynter, Édouard Glissant, and C. L. R. James, among others. In addition to some overt mentions, such as in “On Reading Louise Bennett, Seriously,” Morris’s scholarship was largely devoted to privileging and amplifying the voices of writers and other creative artists who operated...

... deliberately chosen, since I wished to reveal the similarity of their central impulse. Thus M. Jacqui Alexander and Percy Hintzen are read together on contemporary elite domination, C. L. R. James and Claudia Jones on black radicalism and the limits of Marxism, Frantz Fanon and Sylvia Wynter on race...

... living in Tanzania, and is now among the papers of Pan-African scholar and activist C. L. R. James in an archive in Trinidad. Without the Rastafari sources located in Tanzania, as well as the sources scattered in other parts of the world, this letter from Carruthers is disconnected from the larger...