C.L.R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary
- ISBN-10
- 1786634554
- ISBN-13
- 9781786634559
- Series
- C.L.R. James
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-10-10
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Author
- Paul Buhle
Description
A new edition of C.L.R. James’s authorized biography C.L.R. James was a man of prodigious and varied accomplishments. He was a protean twentieth-century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a pioneering scholar of slave revolt; a leading voice of Pan-Africanism; a peripatetic revolutionary and scholar active in US and UK radical movements; a novelist, playwright, and critic; and one of the premier writers on cricket and sports. This intellectual portrait was written by James’s longtime interlocutor and comrade Paul Buhle, and initially published in 1988. With a new final chapter, updated bibliography, a new foreword by historian Robin D.G. Kelley and a new afterword by Paul Buhle and the philosopher Lawrence Ware, this long-awaited revised edition of a classic biography will be a key resource in the James revival.
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