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.