C. L. R. James’s Caribbean

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
PART I: Portraits and Self-Portraits......Page 18
1. C. L. R. James: A Portrait by Stuart Hall......Page 20
2. C. L. R. James on the Caribbean: Three Letters......Page 34
3. C. L. R. James: West Indian George Lamming interviewed by Paul Buhle......Page 45
PART II: The Early Trinidadian Years......Page 54
4. The Audacity of It All: C. L. R. James’s Trinidadian Background by Selwyn Cudjoe......Page 56
5. The Making of a Literary Life C. L. R. James interviewed by Paul Buhle......Page 73
PART III: Textual Explorations......Page 78
6. Beyond the Categories of the Master Conception: The Counterdoctrine of the Jamesian Poiesis by Sylvia Wynter......Page 80
7. Cricket and National Culture in the Writings of C. L. R. James by Neil Lazarus......Page 109
8. Caliban as Deconstructionist: C. L. R. James and Post-Colonial Discourse by Paget Henry and Paul Buhle......Page 128
PART IV: Praxis......Page 160
9. C. L. R. James and the Caribbean Economic Tradition by Paget Henry......Page 162
10. C. L. R. James and Trinidadian Nationalism by Walton Look Lai......Page 191
11. The Question of the Canon: C. L. R. James and Modern Politics by Kent Worcester......Page 227
12. C. L. R. James and the Antiguan Left by Paget Henry......Page 242
Appendix: Excerpts from The Life of Captain Cipriani......Page 280
Chronology......Page 288
Glossary......Page 291
Index......Page 295