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Mariners, Renegades and Castaways (Paperback)
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Mariners, Renegades and Castaways (Paperback)
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Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist and cricket
enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901 - 1989) was a brilliant polymath
who has been described by Edward Said as "a centrally important
20th-century figure." Through such landmark works as The Black
Jacobins, Beyond a Boundary, and American Civilization, James's
thought continues to influence and inspire scholars in a wide
variety of fields. "There is little doubt," wrote novelist Caryl
Phillips in The New Republic, "that James will come to be regarded
as the outstanding Caribbean mind of the twentieth century."
In his seminal work of literary and cultural criticism, Mariners,
Renegades and Castaways, James anticipated many of the concerns and
ideas that have shaped the contemporary fields of American and
Postcolonial Studies, yet this widely influential book has been
unavailable in its complete form since its original publication in
1953. A provocative study of Moby Dick in which James challenged
the prevailing Americanist interpretation that opposed a
"totalitarian" Ahab and a "democratic, American" Ishmael, he
offered instead a vision of a factory-like Pequod whose "captain of
industry" leads the "mariners, renegades and castaways" of its crew
to their doom.
In addition to demonstrating how such an interpretation supported
the emerging US national security state, James also related the
narrative of Moby Dick, and its resonance in American literary and
political culture, to his own persecuted position at the height (or
the depth) of the Truman/McCarthy era. It is precisely this
personal, deeply original material that was excised from the only
subsequent edition. With a new introduction by Donald E. Pease that
places the work in its critical and cultural context, Mariners,
Renegades and Castaways is once again available in its complete
form.
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