At the Rendezvous of Victory: Selected Writings

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Allison & Busby, 1984 - Literary Collections - 303 pages

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Contents

Revolution 1931
1
The Star that Would Not Shine 1931
9
Is This Worth a War? 1935
13
Copyright

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About the author (1984)

A native of Trinidad, C. L. R. James grew up in a very respectable middle-class black family steeped in British manners and culture. Although justifiably well-known in the British world as a writer, historian, and political activist, his contributions have been underappreciated in the United States. A student of history, literature, philosophy, and culture, James thought widely and wrote provocatively. He also turned his words into deeds as a journalist, a Trotskyite, a Pan-African activist, a Trinidadian nationalist politican, a university teacher, and a government official. James was a teacher and magazine editor in Trinidad until the early 1930s, when he went to England and became a sports writer for the Manchester Guardian. While in England he became a dedicated Marxist organizer. In 1938 he moved to the United States and continued his political activities, founding an organization dedicated to the principles of Trotskyism. His politics led to his expulsion from the United States in 1953, and he returned to Trinidad, from which he was also expelled in the early 1960s. He spent the remainder of his life in England. Among James's extensive writings, the two most influential volumes are Black Jacobins (1967), a study of the anti-French Dominican (Haitian) slave rebellion of the 1790s, and Beyond a Boundary (1963), a remarkable exploration of sport, specifically cricket, as social and political history. Other important works include A History of Negro Revolt (1938) and The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932). James represents an unusual combination of activist-reformer (even revolutionary) and promoter of the best in art, culture, and gentility.

Bibliographic information

TitleAt the Rendezvous of Victory: Selected Writings
AuthorCyril Lionel Robert James
PublisherAllison & Busby, 1984
Original fromUniversity of Texas
DigitizedNov 20, 2008
ISBN0850314038, 9780850314038
Length303 pages
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