[Marxism] New book on CLR James

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York
University is pleased to announce a book party on Tuesday, April 15, at
6:30 PM, to celebrate the publication of /Urbane Revolutionary: C. L. R.
James and the Struggle for a New Society/ (University Press of
Mississippi, 2008), by Frank Rosengarten, professor emeritus of Italian
and comparative literature at the City University of New York.

(The Tamiment Library is located on the 10th floor of NYU's Bobst
Library, 70 Washington Square South (at the corner of LaGuardia Place).
There will be light refreshments, and autographed copies of /Urbane
Revolutionary/ will be available for sale at a 20% discount.
C. L. R. James (1901-1989), was a leading Afro-Caribbean Marxist and
Pan-Africanist intellectual, best known for his prescient writings on
black nationalism and culture, including /Black Jacobins:/ T/oussaint
L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution/ (1938), and /Beyond a
Boundary/ (1963), his seminal study of the sport of cricket.

Rosengarten traces C.L.R. James' intellectual and political development,
examining in depth three facets of James's work: his interpretation and
use of Marxist, Trotskyist, and Leninist concepts; his approach to
Caribbean and African struggles for independence in the 1950s and 1960s;
and his branching into prose fiction, drama, and literary criticism.
Rosengarten also analyzes James's previously under-explored
relationships with women and feminism. With its extensive use of
unpublished letters, private correspondence, papers and other documents,
/Urbane Revolutionary/ provides fresh insights into the work of one of
the twentieth century's most important intellectuals and activists.

For additional information, contact Tamiment Archivist Peter Meyer
Filardo via phone (212-998-2639) or email (peter*.*filardo@nyu*.*edu).

Peter Meyer Filardo
Tamiment Archivist
Tamiment Library, New York University
70 Washington Square S., New York, NY 10012
212-998-2639 / peter.filardo@xxxxxxx
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/

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