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Quotation by C.L.R. James:
In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.
C.L.R. James (more by this author)
1901-1989 (Age at death: 88 approx.)
Cyril Lionel Robert James, who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J.R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts. His work is a staple of subaltern studies, and he figures as a pioneering and influential voice in postcolonial literature. His work is often associated with Caribbean and Afro-nationalism, though James himself contended that the "either-or" was a false dichotomy, and that Caribbean peoples were indebted to European as much as African cultural traditions. A tireless political activist, James's writing on the Communist International stirred debate in Trotskyist circles, and his history of the Haitian slave uprising, The Black Jacobins, is a seminal text in the literature of the African Diaspora. Characterized by one literary critic as an "anti-Stalinist dialectician", James was known for his autodidactic facility, for his occasional playwriting and acting, and as an avid sportsman. He is also famed as a writer on cricket.
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Country: Venezuela
Type: Prose
Context: Book
Context Details: p36 of paperback The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Overture and the San Domingo Revolution (1963 re-issue of the 1938 hardback book.)
