Mariners, Renegades & Castaways

Paperback, 216 pages

Published May 7, 2025 by Brandeis University Press.

ISBN:
978-1-68458-279-2
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Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901 – 1989) was a brilliant polymath who has been described by Edward Said as “a centrally important 20th-century figure.” Through such landmark works as The Black Jacobins, Beyond a Boundary, and American Civilization, James’s thought continues to influence and inspire scholars in a wide variety of fields. “There is little doubt,” wrote novelist Caryl Phillips in The New Republic, “that James will come to be regarded as the outstanding Caribbean mind of the twentieth century.” In his seminal work of literary and cultural criticism, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways, James anticipated many of the concerns and ideas that have shaped the contemporary fields of American and Postcolonial Studies, yet this widely influential book has been unavailable in its complete form since its original publication in 1953. A provocative study of Moby Dick in which James challenged the …

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Subjects

  • Working class in literature
  • History
  • Social problems in literature
  • Literature and society
  • Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
  • Political and social views
  • Criticism and interpretation
  • Melville, herman, 1819-1891