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- catalog abstract ""C. L.R. James's correspondence with Constance Webb, the young American woman who eventually became his wife, began in 1939 and lasted a decade. Passionate, poetic, and wonderfully readable, the letters chart an extraordinary friendship and gripping period in the life of C.L.R. James as a revolutionary activist in America." "Beginning with James's first letters to Webb (written whilst visiting Trotsky in Coyoacan, Mexico) and ending with his letters from 'exile' in Nevada, the correspondence is simultaneously an intimate record of a romantic relationship and a profound meditation on politics, art, and American civilization. Whether debating with Richard Wright in New York, lecturing in Los Angeles, or singing arias aboard ship in the Gulf of Mexico, James is always a superb traveling companion: quick to draw historical and political lessons from everyday life, and always able to illuminate experience through art." "Something powerful was unlocked by James's experience of America. And at the centre of this experience was his attempt to bridge the gap of race, age, and gender between himself and Constance Webb. Already celebrated while unpublished, these letters form one of the major resources on James's life and thought during his American period. But they also tell a story as intellectually stimulating as it is affecting."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9198065.
- catalog contributor b9198066.
- catalog contributor b9198067.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""C. L.R. James's correspondence with Constance Webb, the young American woman who eventually became his wife, began in 1939 and lasted a decade. Passionate, poetic, and wonderfully readable, the letters chart an extraordinary friendship and gripping period in the life of C.L.R. James as a revolutionary activist in America." "Beginning with James's first letters to Webb (written whilst visiting Trotsky in Coyoacan, Mexico) and ending with his letters from 'exile' in Nevada, the correspondence is simultaneously an intimate record of a romantic relationship and a profound meditation on politics, art, and American civilization. Whether debating with Richard Wright in New York, lecturing in Los Angeles, or singing arias aboard ship in the Gulf of Mexico, James is always a superb traveling companion: quick to draw historical and political lessons from everyday life, and always able to illuminate experience through art." "Something powerful was unlocked by James's experience of America. And at the centre of this experience was his attempt to bridge the gap of race, age, and gender between himself and Constance Webb. Already celebrated while unpublished, these letters form one of the major resources on James's life and thought during his American period. But they also tell a story as intellectually stimulating as it is affecting."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "393 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1557866279 (hbk)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, MA : Blackwell,".
- catalog spatial "Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad".
- catalog spatial "Trinidad".
- catalog subject "818 B 20".
- catalog subject "Authors, Trinidadian 20th century Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Historians Trinidad Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Historians Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "PR9272.9.J35 Z489 1995".
- catalog subject "Revolutionaries Trinidad Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Revolutionaries Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Webb, Constance Correspondence.".
- catalog title "Special delivery : the letters of C.L.R. James to Constance Webb, 1939-1948 / edited and introduced by Anna Grimshaw.".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".