C.L.R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title C.L.R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary
Authors and Contributors      Afterword by Lawrence Ware
Afterword by Paul Buhle
By (author) Paul Buhle
Foreword by Robin DG Kelley
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 156
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9781786634535
ClassificationsDewey:818
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Verso Books
Imprint Verso Books
Publication Date 10 October 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

C.L.R. James was a protean 20th century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a pioneering scholar of slave revolt; a leading voice of Pan-Africanism; a peripatetic revolutionary and scholar who was active in US and UK radical movements; a novelist, playwright, and critic; and one of the premier writers on cricket and sports. This intellectual portrait was written by James's longtime interlocutor and comrade Paul Buhle, and initially published in 1988. With a new final chapter, updated bibliography, a new foreword by historian Robin D.G. Kelley and a new afterword by philosopher Lawrence Ware, this long-awaited revised edition of a classic biography will be a key resource in the James revival.

Author Biography

Paul Buhle is the author or editor of more than three dozen books. Formerly a senior lecturer at Brown University, he produces radical comics. He founded the SDS Journal Radical America and the archive Oral History of the American Left and, with Mari Jo Buhle, is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left. He lives in Madison, WI.

Reviews

"Buhle's path-breaking work-attentive and scrupulous-is a major contribution ... A first-rate analysis of James's central achievements." -Edward Said "For Buhle, James was many things: artist, revolutionary, athlete, nationalist, internationalist, Anglophile, Graecophile, libertarian, Leninist, Black liberationist, Pan-Africanist, classicist and lover of popular culture. The central achievement of Buhle's biography of James is that he shows that James did not connect his various roles with the word 'nevertheless.' Rather he saw himself as an artist and therefore a revolutionary; as a nationalist and therefore a Pan-Africanist." -David Roediger "I thought it a good book, and a hard book to write, a biography. I haven't killed anybody, but he made it interesting ... A successful piece of work." -C.L.R. James