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Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics: C.L.R. James' Critique of Modernity book cover

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Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics C.L.R. James' Critique of Modernity

By Brett St Louis Copyright 2007
258 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge
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Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics offers a critical appraisal of C.L.R. James as a major twentieth-century activist-intellectual, exploring his prolific output spanning decades within genres as diverse as history, philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural criticism, prose fiction, and reportage. The book also analyzes some of the flaws and contradictions that surfaced within James’... Read more

Introduction

Modern Epiphanies: C.L.R. James and the Reimagining of Modernity

Chapter 1

‘They brought themselves’: Modernity and the Emergence of the Black Jacobins

Chapter 2

‘Elective Affinities’ and the Intellectual Vocation: Race, Politics, and Poetics

Chapter 3

The Perilous ‘Pleasures of Exile’: Faith, Failed Gods, and the Diasporic Life

Chapter 4

Mapping Spontaneity: The Organic Unity of Self-Activity and Radical Struggles

Chapter 5

‘Freedom is creative universality, not utility’: Sociality and the Cultural Politics of Cricket

Epilogue

‘The Struggle for Happiness’: From Epiphany to Poiesis

Biography

Brett St Louis is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published widely on race and racism and is an editorial board member of Ethnic and Racial Studies and New Formations.

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