| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART ONE: MARXISM AND JOHNSONISM; PART TWO: NATIONAL-POPULAR POLITICS; PART THREE: LITERATURE AND SOCIETY; About the Sources; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society, Frank Rosengarten traces the intellectual and political development of C.L.R. James (1901-1989), one of the most significant Caribbean intellectuals of the twentieth century. In his political and philo-sophical commentary, his histories, drama, letters, memoir, and fiction, James broke new ground dealing with the fundamental issues of his age-colonialism and postcolo-nialism, Soviet socialism and wes-tern neo-liberal capitalism, and the uses of race, class, and gender as tools for analysis. The author examines in dep |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
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James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989 -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989 fast |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
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Political and social views
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English Literature.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007021091 |
| ISBN |
9781604733068 |
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1604733063 |
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