Brett St Louis

Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics

C.L.R. James' Critique of Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

This book assesses the oeuvre of Trinidadian activist-intellectual C.L.R. James in its entire polymath range, analyzing his writings across disciplines and genres as well as his varied political and cultural concerns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138874695
• ISBN-10: 1138874698
• Artikelnr.: 42796351

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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