Balutansky reviews C. L. R. James, the Artist as Revolutionary by Paul Buhle, C. L. R. James's Caribbean edited by Paget Henry and Paul Buhle, The C. L. R. James Reader edited by Anna Grimshaw, Special Delivery: The Letters of C. L. R. James to Constance Webb, 1939-1948 edited by Anna Grimshaw and C. L. R. James: His Intellectual Legacies edited by Selwyn R. Cudjoe and William E. Cain.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
287 p, Contents: C.L.R. James : a portrait / Stuart Hall -- C.L.R. James on the Caribbean : three letters / C.L.R. James -- C.L.R. James : West Indian / George Lamming interviewed by Paul Buhle -- The audacity of it all : C.L.R. James's Trinidadian background / Selwyn Cudjoe -- The making of a literary life / C.L.R. James interviewed by Paul Buhle -- Beyond the categories of the master conception : the counterdoctrine of the Jamesian poiesis / Sylvia Wynter -- Cricket and national culture in the writings of C.L.R. James / Neil Lazarus -- Caliban as deconstructionist : C.L.R. James and post-colonial discourse / Paget Henry and Paul Buhle -- C.L.R. James and the Caribbean economic tradition / Paget Henry -- C.L.R. James and Trinidadian nationalism / Walton Look Lai -- The question of the canon : C.L.R. James and modern politics / Kent Worcester --C.L.R. James and the Antiguan left / Paget Henry.
