C.L.R. James in imperial Britain /

C.L.R. James in imperial Britain / Christian Høgsbjerg.

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 traject...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Høgsbjerg, Christian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:C.L.R. James Archives (Series)
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.
Homes.
Political and social views.
England > London.
Table of Contents:
  • "We lived according to the tenets of Matthew Arnold" : colonial victorianism and the creative realism of the young C.L.R. James
  • "Red Nelson" : the English working class and the making of C.L.R. James
  • "Imperialism must be destroyed" : C.L.R. James, race, and revolutionary politics
  • "The humbler type of cricket scribe" : C.L.R. James on sport, culture, and society
  • "There is no drama like the drama of history" : the Black Jacobins, Toussaint Louverture, and the Haitian revolution
  • "To exploit a larger world to conquer" : C.L.R. James's intellectual conquest of imperial Britain.

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