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The Life of Captain Cipriani - An Account of British Government in the West Indies, with the pamphlet The Case for West-Indian Self Government (Hardcover)
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The Life of Captain Cipriani - An Account of British Government in the West Indies, with the pamphlet The Case for West-Indian Self Government (Hardcover)
Series: The C. L. R. James Archives
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"The Life of Captain Cipriani" (1932) is the earliest full-length
work of nonfiction by the Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James, one of
the most significant historians and Marxist theorists of the
twentieth century. It is partly based on James's interviews with
Arthur Andrew Cipriani (1875-1945). As a captain with the British
West Indies Regiment during the First World War, Cipriani was
greatly impressed by the service of black West Indian troops and
appalled at their treatment during and after the war. After his
return to the West Indies, he became a Trinidadian political leader
and advocate for West Indian self-government. James's book is as
much polemic as biography. Written in Trinidad and published in
England, it is an early and powerful statement of West Indian
nationalism. An excerpt, "The Case for West-Indian Self
Government," was issued by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth
Press in 1933. This volume includes the biography, the pamphlet,
and a new introduction in which Bridget Brereton considers both
texts and the young C. L. R. James in relation to Trinidadian and
West Indian intellectual and social history. She discusses how
James came to write his biography of Cipriani, how the book was
received in the West Indies and Trinidad, and how, throughout his
career, James would use biography to explore the dynamics of
politics and history.
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