Breaking bread with history: C. L. R. James and the Black Jacobins Stuart Hall

History Workshop Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 16-31

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DOI: 10.1093/hwj/1998.46.17     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins. Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo revolution (1938), Allison and Busby, London, 1980.
2. New collections of James's writings are appearing all the time. There are now a number of biographies. Best to start with are Paul Buhle, C.L. R. James. The artist as revolutionary, Verso, London, 1988
3. and Kent Worcester, C. L. R. James. A political biography, State University of New York Press, New York, 1996.
4. The most illuminating critical responses are contained in Paget Henry and Paul Buhle (eds), C. L. R. James' Caribbean, Duke University Press, Durham, 1992;
5. and Selwyn Cudjoe and William Cain (eds), C. L. R. James. His intellectual legacies, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1995.
6. Hazel Carby, 'Proletarian or revolutionary literature? C. L. R. James and the politics of the Trinidadian renaissance', New Formations 10, 1990.
7. See illustrations in this feature and the catalogue for the Hayward Gallery exhibition: Rhapsodies in Black. Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Institute of International Visual Arts and University of California Press, London, 1997;
8. and David A. Bailey, 'Rhapsodizing black: Harlem in London, 1997', New Formations 33, 1998.
9. Eric Williams, Inward Hunger. The education of a prime minister. Deutsch, London, 1969;
10. and Capitalism and Slavery, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1944.
11. There is no single volume which encompasses the full range of Marcus Garvey and his movement. Robert Hill has edited some of the papers of Garvey and the UNIA for the University of California Press. There are a wide variety of memoirs. And there are a number of suggestive insights in one of the most recent analyses: Winston James, Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia. Caribbean radicalism in early twentieth-century America, Verso, London, 1998.
12. C. L. R. James, The Life of Captain Cipriani: an account of British government in the West Indies, Coulton, London, 1932;
13. an extract from this was published as a pamphlet, The Case for West-Indian Self-Government, Hogarth Press, London, 1933.
14. The situation in Trinidad is covered in Susan Craig, Smiles and Blood. The ruling class response to the workers' rebellion in Trinidad and Tobago, New Beacon, London, 1988;
15. and in Kelvin Singh, Race and Class Struggles in a Colonial State. Trinidad, 1917-1945, University of West Indies Press, Kingston, 1994.
16. The fullest reconstruction concentrates on Jamaica: Ken Post, Arise Ye Starvelings! The Jamaican labour rebellion of 1938 and its aftermath, Nijhoff, The Hague, 1978.
17. Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, three vols, Sphere, London, 1967.
18. See note 6, above.
19. Simon Schama, Citizens. A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Knopf, New York, 1989.
20. C. L. R. James, Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, Allison and Busby, London, 1977.
21. The original script is included in Anna Grimshaw (ed.), The C. L. R. James Reader, Blackwell, Oxford, 1992.
22. C. L. R. James, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways. The story of Herman Melville and the world we live in, Bewick, Detroit, 1978.
23. C. L. R. James, Notes on Dialectics. Hegel-Marx-Lenin, Allison and Busby, London, 1980.
24. C. L. R. James, American Civilization, Blackwell, Oxford, 1993.
25. C. L. R. James, Special Delivery. The letters of C. L. R. James to Constance Webb, 1939-1948, Blackwell, Oxford, 1996.
26. C. L. R. James, Minty Alley, New Beacon, London, 1989.