C.L.R. James in imperial Britain
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C.L.R. James in imperial Britain
（The C.L.R. James archives / Robert A. Hill, series editor）
Duke University Press, 2014
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- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-281) and index
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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 Hogsbjerg 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. Hogsbjerg 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction. Revolutionaries, Artists, and Wicket-Keepers: C. L. R. James's Place in History 1
1. We Lived According to the Tenets of Matthew Arnold: Colonial Victorianism and the Creative Realism of the Young C. L. R. James 17
2. Red Nelson: The English Working Class and the Making of C. L. R. James 38
3. Imperialism Must Be Destroyed: C. L. R. James, Race, and Revolutionary Politics 65
4. The Humbler Type of Cricket Scribe: C. L. R. James on Sport, Culture, and Society 125
5. There Is No Drama Like the Drama of History: The Black Jacobins, Toussaint Louverture, and the Haitian Revolution 158
Conclusion. To Exploit a Larger World to Conquer: C. L. R. James's Intellectual Conquest of Imperial Britain 199
Notes 217
Bibliography 259
Index 283
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