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The Origins of Modern Tragedy in CLR James
Following from this overview it is now possible to give an account of the interpretation of tragedy by James. As we will see, what emerges is a concern with representing a Marxist understanding of the...
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C.L.R. James on Tragedy in Melville’s Moby Dick
In Shakespeare, as we have seen, James considered “the creation of a new type [sic] the intellectual divorced from all classes, with his penetrating insight into the evils of modern society,” whose...
View ArticleC.L.R. James on Tragic Form
At this point it is now possible to return to the argument concerning James’ use of tragedy as a conceptual framework to revise The Black Jacobins. “For James, Toussaint like Hamlet embodies a social...
View ArticleC.L.R. James on Class Formation and Subjectivity in Party Politics in the...
It seems James had solved the contradiction between what Toussaint should have done and his objective role in the Haitian Revolution. The problem of freedom in The Black Jacobins, and therefore its...
View ArticleMore on C.L.R. James, Uneven Development and Subjectivity
While the issue of class development and its subjective consequences in Party Politics in the West Indies initially determine the “alternative nationalist project” James theorized at the beginning of...
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The Revision of The Black Jacobins and the Historiography of the Haitian...
Although James provided only an outline of how the history of the Haitian Revolution should be rewritten, subsequent writing has helped to clarify the conceptual dilemmas posed by his text. The Black...
View ArticleHistoricizing the Gap Between the Two Editions of The Black Jacobins
Stuart Hall has spoken of the “gap” in the West Indian reception of The Black Jacobins between the “generation of the thirties” that were “formed by it in part” and when “it really becomes an active...
View ArticleC.L.R. James and the Ideology of Development
“‘Modernity still awaits us’—this is the refrain of the hyperrational colonial modern,” Dipesh Chakrabarty writes, “How long does it take for an Indian to become modern?” As I have suggested, James...
View ArticleThe Caribbean Novel and the Realization of History in the Era of Decolonization
C.L.R. James once suggested that novelists in the Caribbean have been its historians. It is difficult to assess such an idea unless we take into account the set of historical experiences and...
View ArticleRealization of History in the Era of Decolonization Continued
I have already stated that the problem of realizing the subject in historical terms has been mediated by the particular socio-historical circumstances of the Caribbean. As has been well documented, the...
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