Urbane revolutionary [[electronic resource] ] : C. L. R. James and the struggle for a new society / / Frank Rosengarten

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825356703321
• Autore: Rosengarten Frank <1927->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-48558-X; 9786612485589; 1-60473-306-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.52
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-272) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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