Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. PART I. Portraits and Self-Portraits
5. 1. C. L. R. James: A Portrait 3
6. 2. C. L. R. James on the Caribbean: Three Letters C. L. R. James 17
7. 3. C. L. R. James: West Indian George Lamming interviewed by Paul Buhle 28
8. PART II. The Early Trinidadian Years
9. 4. The Audacity of It All: C. L. R. James's Trinidadian Background 39
10. 5. The Making of a Literary Life C. L. R. James interviewed by Paul Buhle 56
11. PART III. Textual Explorations
12. 6. Beyond the Categories of the Master Conception: The Counterdoctrine of the Jamesian Poiesis 63
13. 7. Cricket and National Culture in the Writings of C. L. R. James 92
14. 8 Caliban as Deconstructionist: C. L. R. James and Post-Colonial Discourse 111
15. PART IV. Praxis
16. 9. C. L. R. James and the Caribbean Economic Tradition 145
17. 10. C. L. R. James and Trinidadian Nationalism 174
18. 11. The Question of the Canon: C. L. R. James and Modern Politics 210
19. 12. C. L. R. James and the Antiguan Left 225
20. Appendix: Excerpts from The Life of Captain Cipriani 263
21. Chronology 271
22. Glossary 274
23. Index 278