Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
|
Your cart is empty |
|||
Showing 1 - 21 of 21 matches in All Departments
PERHAPS THE GREATEST VICTORY OF THE OPPRESSED OVER THEIR OPPRESSORS IN ALL HISTORY The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791, the enslaved people of the most prized French sugar plantation colony revolted against their masters. For over twelve years, against a backdrop of the French Revolution, they fought an epic black liberation struggle for control of the island. Theirs was the first and only successful slave revolution. It was the creation of Haiti as a nation, the first independent black republic outside of Africa, and an international inspiration to the persecuted and enslaved. This is the impassioned and beautifully drawn story of the Haitian Revolution and its incredible leader: Toussaint Louverture. The text of this graphic novel is a play by C. L. R. James that opened in London in 1936 with Paul Robeson in the title role. For the first time, black actors appeared on the British stage in a work by a black playwright. The script had been lost for almost seventy years when a draft copy was discovered among James's archives. Now this extraordinary drama has been reimagined by artists Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee.
In this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president and prime minister of Ghana. Although James wrote it in the immediate post-independence period around 1958, he did not publish it until nearly twenty years later, when he added a series of his own letters, speeches, and articles from the 1960s. Although Nkrumah led the revolution, James emphasizes that it was a popular mass movement fundamentally realized by the actions of everyday Ghanaians. Moreover, James shows that Ghana's independence movement was an exceptional moment in global revolutionary history: it moved revolutionary activity to the African continent and employed new tactics not seen in previous revolutions. Featuring a new introduction by Leslie James, an unpublished draft of C. L. R. James's introduction to the 1977 edition, and correspondence, this definitive edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution offers a revised understanding of Africa's shaping of freedom movements and insight into the possibilities for decolonial futures.
Originally published in 1937, C. L. R. James's World Revolution is a pioneering Marxist analysis of the history of revolutions during the interwar period and of the fundamental conflict between Trotsky and Stalin. James, who was a leading Trotskyist activist in Britain, outlines Russia's transition from Communist revolution to a Stalinist totalitarian state bureaucracy. He also provides an account of the ideological contestations within the Communist International while examining its influence on the development of the Soviet Union and its changing role in revolutions in Spain, China, Germany, and Central Europe. Published to commemorate the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this definitive edition of World Revolution features a new introduction by Christian Hogsbjerg and includes rare archival material, selected contemporary reviews, and extracts from James's 1939 interview with Trotsky.
In 1932 the young writer and political activist CLR James arrived in London from his native Trinidad. During his first weeks in the city he wrote a series of essays about his impressions and experiences for publication back home in the Port of Spain Gazette. Seventy years later, these pieces, newly transcribed from archives in the Caribbean, are published for the first time as a collection, with an extensive introduction and notes. Letters from London reveals CLR James' first encounter with the colonial metropolis and the values that had already shaped his intellectual development in Trinidad. Drawn to London's literary and political avant-garde, he describes life in Bloomsbury, arguments with Edith Sitwell, visits to theatres, museums and concert halls, and his seminal friendship with the great West Indies cricketer, Learie Constantine. Initially in awe of London, James soon develops a critical stance towards the city and its once mysterious people, analysing their drab architecture, shallow newspapers and repressed social relations. 'Londoners have had sixty years of compulsory education and all the advantages of a great modern city,' he writes. 'When you look at the intellectual quality of the people, you are astonished.' A resurrected 'classic' of considerable importance, Letters from London provides a hitherto inaccessible picture of the young CLR James and his formative period. This collection will appeal not just to Jamesites, but to scholars of colonial and post-colonial history and those interested in London.
In this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president and prime minister of Ghana. Although James wrote it in the immediate post-independence period around 1958, he did not publish it until nearly twenty years later, when he added a series of his own letters, speeches, and articles from the 1960s. Although Nkrumah led the revolution, James emphasizes that it was a popular mass movement fundamentally realized by the actions of everyday Ghanaians. Moreover, James shows that Ghana's independence movement was an exceptional moment in global revolutionary history: it moved revolutionary activity to the African continent and employed new tactics not seen in previous revolutions. Featuring a new introduction by Leslie James, an unpublished draft of C. L. R. James's introduction to the 1977 edition, and correspondence, this definitive edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution offers a revised understanding of Africa's shaping of freedom movements and insight into the possibilities for decolonial futures.
In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black republic outside Africa. Only three years later, the British and Americans ended the Atlantic slave trade. In this outstanding example of vivid, committed and empathetic historical analysis, C. L. R. James illuminates these epoch-making events. He explores the appalling economic realities of the Caribbean economy, the roots of the world's only successful slave revolt and the utterly extraordinary former slave - Toussaint L'Ouverture - who led them. Explicitly written as part of the fight to end colonialism in Africa, The Black Jacobins put the slaves themselves centre stage, boldly forging their own destiny against nearly impossible odds. It remains one of the essential texts for understanding the Caribbean - and the region's inextricable links with Europe, Africa and the Americas.
"You Don't Play With Revolution" collects seven never-before-published lectures by Marxist cultural critic C.L.R. James, delivered during his stay in Montreal in 1967-1968. Ranging in topic from Marx and Lenin to Shakespeare and Rousseau to Caribbean history and the Haitian Revolution, these lectures demonstrate the staggering breadth and clarity of James' knowledge and interest. Little information exists in print on the critical period James spent working with West Indian intellectuals and students in Canada in the late 1960s; this collection highlights the themes we have come to associate with James' critical project and situates them in a new light. Readers just beginning to delve into James' work will find this collection accessible and engaging, an ideal introduction to a complex and multi-faceted body of scholarship. Editor David Austin has also included two seminal interviews produced with James during his stay in Canada, and a series of letters James exchanged with the West Indian university students who made these lectures possible. "You Don't Play With Revolution" also includes an introduction by Robert A. Hill, co-founder of the C.L.R. James Study Circle and historical advisor to the new James archive at Columbia University. C.L.R. James (1901-1989) was born in Trinidad and was a prominent anti-colonial scholar and cultural critic throughout his life. With Grace Lee and Raya Dunayevskaya, he helped define and popularize the autonomist Marxist tradition in the United States and Canada. David Austin is founder and trustee of the Alfie Roberts Institute, an independent research institute based in Montreal.
Originally published in 1937, C. L. R. James's World Revolution is a pioneering Marxist analysis of the history of revolutions during the interwar period and of the fundamental conflict between Trotsky and Stalin. James, who was a leading Trotskyist activist in Britain, outlines Russia's transition from Communist revolution to a Stalinist totalitarian state bureaucracy. He also provides an account of the ideological contestations within the Communist International while examining its influence on the development of the Soviet Union and its changing role in revolutions in Spain, China, Germany, and Central Europe. Published to commemorate the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this definitive edition of World Revolution features a new introduction by Christian Hogsbjerg and includes rare archival material, selected contemporary reviews, and extracts from James's 1939 interview with Trotsky.
"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.
The only novel from the world-renowned writer C.L.R. James - this extraordinary, big-hearted exploration of class was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in the UK 'A novel written nearly a hundred years ago that brings the past alive with such charm, vitality and humour.' Bernardine Evaristo, from the Introduction 'As he walked home he looked up at the myriads of stars, shining in the moonlight. Did people live there? And if they did, what sort of life did they live?' It is the 1920s in the Trinidadian capital, and Haynes' world has been upended. His mother has passed away, and his carefully mapped-out future of gleaming opportunity has disappeared with her. Unable to afford his former life, he finds himself moving into Minty Alley - a bustling barrack yard teeming with energy and a spectacular cast of characters. In this sliver of West Indian working-class society, outrageous love affairs and passionate arguments are a daily fixture, and Haynes begins to slip from curious observer to the heart of the action. Minty Alley is a gloriously observed portrayal of class, community and the ways in which we are all inherently connected. An undisputed modern classic, this is an exceptional story told by one of the twentieth century's greatest Caribbean thinkers. Selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation.
'Modern Politics' was originally delivered in 1960 as a series of lectures in Trinidad. Both in his lectures and in the text, James's wide-ranging erudition and enduring relevance are powerfully displayed. He analyses revolutionary history and the role of literature, art and culture in society. He also interrogates the ideas and philosophy of such thinkers as Rousseau, Lenin and Trotsky, making this is a magnificent tour de force from a critically-engaged thinker at the height of his powers.
In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual,
writer, and political activist, wrote the play "Toussaint
Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in
History," which was presumed lost until the rediscovery of a draft
copy in 2005. The play's production, performed in 1936 at London's
Westminster Theatre with a cast including the American star Paul
Robeson, marked the first time black professional actors starred on
the British stage in a play written by a black playwright. This
edition includes the program, photographs, and reviews from that
production, a contextual introduction and editorial notes on the
play by Christian Hogsbjerg, and selected essays and letters by
James and others. In "Toussaint Louverture," James demonstrates the
full tragedy and heroism of Louverture by showing how the Haitian
revolutionary leader is caught in a dramatic conflict arising from
the contradiction between the barbaric realities of New World
slavery and the modern ideals of the Enlightenment. In his
portrayal of the Haitian Revolution, James aspired to vindicate
black accomplishments in the face of racism and to support the
struggle for self-government in his native Caribbean. "Toussaint
Louverture "is an indispensable companion work to "The Black
Jacobins" (1938), James's classic account of Haiti's revolutionary
struggle for liberation.
This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic "Beyond a Boundary" celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written. Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by "Sports
Illustrated
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."
"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.
After more than a decade in the United States, the Caribbean writer C. L. R. James ran afoul of McCarthyism in 1953 and was deported. In exile in London, he began to write stories in the form of letters to his four-year-old son "Nobbie," who remained in the States. Through a distinctive, imaginary, and sometimes absurd cast of characters--Good Boongko, Bad boo-boo-loo, Moby Dick, and Nicholas the worker, among others--these stories explore questions of friendship, conflict, community, ethics, and power in humorous and often ingenious ways; they also stand as a moving testament to a father's struggle to be a vivid presence in the life of his son despite separation and distance. Attesting to James's remarkable gifts as a writer and his unusual talent for engaging wide and diverse audiences, these witty and poignant stories, published here for the first time, are not just for James aficionados. Each story is a delight in its own way, making the book irresistible for children and adults alike.
In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual,
writer, and political activist, wrote the play "Toussaint
Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in
History," which was presumed lost until the rediscovery of a draft
copy in 2005. The play's production, performed in 1936 at London's
Westminster Theatre with a cast including the American star Paul
Robeson, marked the first time black professional actors starred on
the British stage in a play written by a black playwright. This
edition includes the program, photographs, and reviews from that
production, a contextual introduction and editorial notes on the
play by Christian Hogsbjerg, and selected essays and letters by
James and others. In "Toussaint Louverture," James demonstrates the
full tragedy and heroism of Louverture by showing how the Haitian
revolutionary leader is caught in a dramatic conflict arising from
the contradiction between the barbaric realities of New World
slavery and the modern ideals of the Enlightenment. In his
portrayal of the Haitian Revolution, James aspired to vindicate
black accomplishments in the face of racism and to support the
struggle for self-government in his native Caribbean. "Toussaint
Louverture "is an indispensable companion work to "The Black
Jacobins" (1938), James's classic account of Haiti's revolutionary
struggle for liberation.
|
You may like...
The South African Guide To Gluten-Free…
Zorah Booley Samaai
Paperback
|