C.L.R. James: a Life

by Farrukh Dhondy

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Almost as old as the century, C.L.R. James died in Brixton in 1990. This biography describes the eventful journey of a unique Caribbean intellectual from childhood in Trinidad to semi-canonization during the "black power" era of the 1970s in Britain. Marxist thinker and writer, he was more attentive as a boy to the study of cricket than history and through that lifelong passion for the game reached a wider audience than normally accorded the political polemicist. C.L.R. James was the author of "Beyond a Boundry" and a legendary cricket correspondent. Drawing together these strands of James's life, the book...Read more
  • ISBN10 1897580223
  • ISBN13 9781897580226
  • Publish Date 11 March 1996
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Orion
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 300
  • Language English