HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):
   Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):
   Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

   Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):
   Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:
   Romanticism (1785-1830):
      Romantic Literature
   Mid-Century/Fin de Siècle (1830-1900):
      'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:
   Analytic Philosophy

   Continental Theory:
      Idealism

      Marxism

      Phenom., Existent., Hermeneutics

      Psychoanalysis

      (Post-)Structuralisms:

         Deconstruction

         Deleuzean Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)

         Foucauldian Discourse Theory

         Semiology / Structuralism

         Structuralist Marxism

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis

   Modernism, Myth & New Criticism

   Pragmatism

 

   Feminist Theory

   Post-colonial Theory

 

   Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

   Central Asia

   East Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

   Central Europe

   Eastern Europe:

      Russia:

        Literature

   Northern Europe:

      Literature

   Southern Europe:

      Greece:

         Literature

      Italy:

         Literature

      Spain:

         Literature

   Western Europe:

      France:

         Literature

      Germany:

         Literature

      UK and Eire:

         Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

   Arabic/Islamic Thought:

      Literature

   Israeli/Jewish Thought:

      Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

   African American Thought:

      Literature

   Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

   Architecture
   Arts, Visual and Plastic

   Film

   Literature:

      Author

      Literary Form & Genre:

         Drama

         Poetry

         Prose

      Literary History, Intertextuality, Canon.

      Metaliterature

      Reader

      Representation

   Music
   Other Media (e.g. Photography)

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

   Discourse Studies
   Philosophy of Language & Logic
   Linguistics

   Rhetoric & Argumentation Theory

   Semiotics

 

   Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

   Medical Humanities
   Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

   Psychology

 

   Gender

   Race

   Sexuality

 

   Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

  

C[YRIL]. L[IONEL]. R[OBERT]. JAMES (1901 - 1989)

"What does he know of cricket who only cricket knows?" (Beyond a Boundary)

"We live in one world and we have to find out what is taking place in the world.  And I, a man of the Caribbean, have found that it is in the study of Western literature, Western philosophy and Western history that I have found out the things that I have found out, even about the underdeveloped countries."  ("Discovering Literature in Trinidad: the 1930s")

"I denounce the scholarship of European colonialism, but I respect the learning and profound discoveries of Western civilisation."  ()

ASSOCIATIONS

  • C. L. R. James Society

CONFERENCES

  • C. L. R. James in Focus: Crossing Boundaries, Fourth Workshop on Caribbean Theory, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, April 22, 2009

  • Seventy years of The Black Jacobins, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, February 2, 2008

  • C. L. R. James: Direct Democracy and Political Economy, C. L. R. James Society, Caribbean Philosophical Association Conference, University of the West Indies, Mona, June 27-30

  • C. L. R. James at 100: Global Capitalism, Culture and the Politics of World Revolution, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, September 20-23, 2001

JOURNALS

  • C. L. R. James Journal: a Review of Caribbean Ideas

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Marxism for Our Times: C. L. R. James on Revolutionary Organization.  Ed. Martin Glaberman.  Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1999.

    • C. L. R. James on the Negro Question.  Ed. Scott McLemee.  Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1996.

    • C. L. R. James and Revolutionary Marxism: Selected Writings 1939-1949.  Ed. Scott McLemee and Paul Le Blanc.  Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1994.

    • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. 

    • Cricket: Selected Writings.  Ed. Anna Grimshaw.  London: Allison and Busby, 1986.

    • 80th Birthday Lectures.  London: Race Today, 1983.

    • Walter Rodney and the Question of Power.  London: Race Today, 1983.

    • Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby.

      • At the Rendezvous of Victory.  Vol. 3.  1984.

      • Spheres of Existence.  Vol. 2.  1980.

      • The Future in the Present.  Vol. 1.  1977.

    • Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution.  London: Allison and Busby, 1977.  [written 1958-1964]

    • Special Issue on C. L. R. James.  Radical America 5.6 (1971).

    • Special Issue on C. L. R. James.  Ed. Paul Buhle and Martha Sonnenberg.  Radical America 4.4 (1970). 

  • Selected Individual Works

    • Black Studies and the Contemporary Student.  Detroit: Facing Reality, 1969.

      • At the Rendezvous of Victory.  Vol. 3 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1984.  186-201.

    • "Discovering Literature in Trinidad: the 1930s."  Journal of Commonwealth Literature 7 (1969): 73-80. 

      • Spheres of Existence.  Vol. 2 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1980.  237-244.

      • Savacou 2 (1970): 54-60.

    • "Black Power: its Past, Today and the Way Ahead."  Speech, London, August 1967. 

      • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.  362-374.

      • Spheres of Existence.  Vol. 2 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1980.  221-236.

    • The Gathering of Forces.  Detroit: Facing Reality, 1967.

    • "The Making of the Caribbean Peoples."  Lecture, Second Conference on West Indian Affairs, Montreal, 1966.

      • Spheres of Existence.  Vol. 2 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1980.  173-190.

      • Special Issue on C. L. R. James.  Ed. Paul Buhle and Martha Sonnenberg.  Radical America 4.4. (1970): 36-49.

    • "The Rise and Fall of Nkrumah."  Daily Mirror, Port of Spain, February - March, 1966. 

      • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.  354-361.

    • Wilson Harris: a Philosophical Approach.  Lecture, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, 1965.  Pub. Port of Spain: University of the West Indies Extra-Mural Department, 1965.

    • "Introduction to 'Tradition and the West Indian Novel.'"  By Wilson Harris.  London: West Indian Students' Union, 1964.

      • Spheres of Existence.  Vol. 2 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1980.  168-172.

      • Tradition, the Writer and Society.  London and Port of Spain: New Beacon, 1967.  69-75.

    • "Lenin and the Problem."  [a Ghanaian political journal] (1964): .

      • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.  331-346.

      • Special Issue on C. L. R. James.  Ed. Paul Buhle and Martha Sonnenberg.  Radical America 4.4. (1970): 97-110.

    • "Talks on Shakespeare."  BBC Caribbean Service, 1963-1964.

      • "Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello."

        • Spheres of Existence.  Vol. 2 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1980.  141-145.

      • The Merchant of Venice.

        • Spheres of Existence.  Vol. 2 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1980.  145-150.

      • "Notes on Hamlet." 

        • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.  243-246.

    • Beyond a Boundary.  London: Stanley Paul / Hutchinson, 1963.  Rpt. London: Serpent's Tale, 1994.

      • "Against the Current."  21-38.

        • Caribbean Essays.  Ed. Andrew Salkey.  London: Evans, 1973.  43-45.

      • "What is Art?"  195-211. 

        • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.  315-326.

        • Special Issue on C. L. R. James.  Ed. Paul Buhle and Martha Sonnenberg.  Radical America 4.4 (1970): 67-72.

      • "The Proof of the Pudding."  225-252.

    • "From Toussaint L'Ouverture to Fidel Castro."  The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution.  Rev. Ed. New York: Vintage, 1963. 

      • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.  296-314.

    • "Lenin and the Vanguard Party."  Controversy (Spring 1963): 50-52. 

      • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.  327-346.

    • Marxism and the Intellectuals.  Detroit: Correspondence, 1962.

      • Spheres of Existence.  Vol. 2 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1980.  113-130.

    • Party Politics in the West Indies.  Port of Spain: , 1962.

      • "The West Indian Middle Classes."  130-139.

        • I AM BECAUSE WE ARE: Readings in Black Philosophy.  Ed. Fred Lee Hord and Jonathan Scott Lee.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1995.  152-161.

        • Spheres of Existence.  Vol. 2 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1980.  131-140.

      • "The Mighty Sparrow." 

        • The Future in the Present.  Vol. 1 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1977.  191-201.

        • Special Issue on C. L. R. James.  Ed. Paul Buhle and Martha Sonnenberg.  Radical America 4.4 (1970): .

    • Modern Politics.  Port of Spain: PNM Publishing, 1960.

      • "The Battle for Survival."  At the Rendezvous of Victory.  Vol. 3 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1984.

      • Special Issue on C. L. R. James.  Ed. Paul Buhle and Martha Sonnenberg.  Radical America 4.4 (1970): 3-11.

    • "The People of the Gold Coast."  1960. 

      • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.  347-353.

    • "The Artist in the Caribbean."  Lecture, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 1959. 

      • The Future in the Present.  Vol. 1 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1977.  183-190.

      • Special Issue on C. L. R. James.  Ed. Paul Buhle and Martha Sonnenberg.  Radical America 4.4 (1970): 61-66.

    • Facing Reality.  Detroit: Correspondence, 1958.  Rpt. Detroit: Bewick / Ed, 1974.

      • "New Society, New People."  At the Rendezvous of Victory.  Vol. 3 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1984.  73-84.

      • "The Workers' Councils in Hungary."  The Future in the Present.  Vol. 1 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1977.  175-182.

      • Special Issue on C. L. R. James.  Ed. Paul Buhle and Martha Sonnenberg.  Radical America 4.4 (1970): 31-35.

    • "Every Cook Can Govern: a Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece, and Negro American and American Politics."  Detroit: Correspondence, 1956.

      • The Future in the Present.  Vol. 1 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1977.  160-174.

    • "Preface to Criticism."  1955. 

      • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.  255-260.

    • "Popular Art and the Cultural Tradition."  Preuves (March 1954): . 

      • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.  247-254.

      • Third Text (1989): .

    • Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: the Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In.  Written 1952.  privately pub. New York, 1953.  Rev. Ed. Detroit: Bewick, 1978.  Rpt. London: Allison and Busby, 1984.

      • "Fiction and Reality."  The Future in the Present.  Vol. 1 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1977.  175-182.

      • Special Issue on C. L. R. James.  Ed. Paul Buhle and Martha Sonnenberg.  Radical America 4.4 (1970): 73-96.

    • "Notes on American Civilisation."  Unpublished Manuscript, 1950.  Pub. as American Civilisation.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.

    • State Capitalism and World Revolution.  Pub. anonymously  as collective statement of Johnson-Forest Tendency, 1950.  2nd Ed. 1956.  3rd Ed. Detroit: Facing Reality, 1969.  4th Ed. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1986.

      • "The Class Struggle." 

        • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.  190-201.

        • The Future in the Present.  Vol. 1 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1977.  128-141.

        • Special Issue on C. L. R. James.  Ed. Paul Buhle and Martha Sonnenberg.  Radical America 4.4 ( 1970): 19-30.

    • Notes on Dialectics: Hegel, Marx, Lenin.  Written 1948.  Photo Offset Detroit: Facing Reality, 1965.  Mimeographed Detroit: Facing Reality, 1970.  London: Allison and Busby, 1980.  Rpt. London: Pluto, 2005.

    • "The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the United States."  13th Convention of Socialist Workers' Party, July 1948. 

      • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.  182-189.

      • The Future in the Present.  Vol. 1 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1977.  119-127.

      • Special Issue on C. L. R. James.  Ed. Paul Buhle and Martha Sonnenberg.  Radical America 4.4 (1970): 12-18.

    • "Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity."  New York: , 1947. 

      • C. L. R. James Reader.  Ed. and intro. Anna Grimshaw.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.  153-181.

      • Spheres of Existence.  Vol. 2 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1980.  70-105.

      • Rpt. as Dialectic and History: an Introduction.  Intro. Paul Buhle and D. Wagner.  Cambridge, MA: , 1972.

    • "The Philosophy of History and Necessity: a Few Words with Professor Hook."  The New International (1943): .

      • Spheres of Existence.  Vol. 2 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1980.  49-58.

    • The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution.  London: Secker and Warburg, 1938.  Rev. Ed. New York: Vintage, 1963.

    • A History of Negro Revolt.  London: Fact Monograph #18, 1938.  Rev. Ed. A History of Pan-African Revolt.  Washington: Drum and Spear, 1969.

      • " . . . Always Out of Africa."  Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution.  London: Allison and Busby, 1977.  212-221.

      • "Revolts in Africa."  The Future in the Present.  Vol. 1 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1977.  70-85.

    • World Revolution 1917-1936: the Rise and Fall of the Communist International.  London: Secker and Warburg, 1937.

      • "The Revolution Abandoned."  At the Rendezvous of Victory.  Vol. 3 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1984.  17-32.

      • "After Hitler, Our Turn."  Spheres of Existence.  Vol. 2 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1980.  14-48.

      • "Stalin Ruins the Chinese Revolution."  The Future in the Present.  Vol. 1 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1977.  41-69.

    • Minty Alley.  London: Secker and Warburg, 1936.

    • The Life of Captain Cipriani: an Account of British Government in the West Indies.  Nelson, Lancashire: Coulton, 1932.

      • The Case for West Indian Self-Government.  London: Hogarth, 1933.

        • The Future in the Present.  Vol. 1 of Selected Writings.  London: Allison and Busby, 1977.  25-40.

    • "The Problem of Knowledge."  The Beacon 1.1 (1931): 22-24.

    • "The Meaning of Philosophy."  The Royalian, magazine of Queen's Royal College, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 1920s.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Bogues, Anthony, ed.  Beyond a Boundary: Critical Essays on the Thought of C. L. R. James.  Kingston: Ian Randle Press, 2007.

    • Buhle, Paul, and Paget Henry, eds.  C. L. R. James's Caribbean.  Durham: Duke UP, 1992.

    • Buhle, Paul, ed.  C. L. R. James: his Life and Work.  London: Allison and Busby, 1986.

    • Cudjoe, Selwyn R., and William E. Cain, eds.  C. L. R. James: his Intellectual Legacies.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1995.

    • Henry, Paget, and Paul Buhle, eds.  C.L.R. James's Caribbean.  Durham: Duke UP, 1992.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Bogues, Anthony.  The Political Thought of C.L.R. James.  Vol.2.  London: Pluto, 2006.

    • Bogues, Anthony.  Caliban’s Freedom: the Early Political Thought of C. L. R. James.  London: Pluto, 1997.

    • Buhle, Paul.  C. L. R. James: the Artist as Revolutionary.  London: Verso, 1988.

    • Dhondy, Farrukh.  C. L. R. James: Cricket, the Caribbean and World Revolution.  London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001.

    • Grimshaw, Anna.  C. L. R. James and the Struggle for Happiness. 

    • Hart, Keith.  Popular Democracy and the Creative Imagination: the Writings of C. L. R. James, 1950-1963. 

    • King, Nicole.  C. L. R. James and Creolisation: Circles of Influence.  Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2001.

    • McClendon, John H.  C. L. R James's Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism?.  Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2004.

    • Renton, Dave.  C. L. R. James: the Enigma of Cricket's Philosopher.  Haus Books, .

    • Rosengarten, Frank.  Urbane Revolutionary: C. L. R. James and the Struggle for a New Society.  Jackson:  UP of Mississippi, 2008.

    • Worcester, Kent.  C. L. R. James: a Political Biography.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1996.

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