C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain

Informationen zum Autor Christian Høgsbjerg Klappentext Christian Høgsbjerg is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of York. He is the editor of a recent edition of C. L. R. James's play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, also published by Duke University Press. Zusammenfassung 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. This book reveals the radicalizing effect of this critical period on James' intellectual and political trajectory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Christian Hgsbjerg, Christian Hogsbjerg, Christian Høgsbjerg
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.2014
• EAN: 9780822356127
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5612-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: The C. L. R. James Archives; The C. L. R. James Archives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Karibik, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies