Beyond Boundaries: C.L.R. James and Postnational Studies

Edited by Christopher Gair. Published by Pluto Press 2006

“This book brings together leading critics to explore the work of CLR James, the world famous Caribbean intellectual. It’s an exciting and innovative examination of the wide impact that James has had on contemporary thought as a historian, novelist, cultural and political theorist, cricket writer and activist. The contributors reinvigorate James’s inspiring critical output, with particular reference to the influence that he has had on cultural studies.”

Dr Chris Gair is a senior lecturer in American Literature at the University of Glasgow, School of Critical Studies.

Contents:

1. C.L.R. James, Genre and Cultural Politics by Nicole King
2. ‘Summer of Hummer’: C.L.R. James, American Civilization, and the (Necro)Political Crisis by Eric Porter
3. C.L.R. James, Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies by Donald E. Pease
4. Beyond Boundaries: Cricket, Herman Melville, and C.L.R. James’s Cold War by Christopher Gair
5. The Odd Couple: C.L.R. James, Hannah Arendt and the Return of Politics in the Cold War by Richard King
6. C.L.R. James’s American Civilization by Bill Schwarz
7. C.L.R. James and the Politics of the Subject, Culture and Desire by Anthony Bogues
8. C.L.R.James, Critical Humanist by Brian Alleyne

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