Minty Alley

Author : C.L.R. James
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241992654

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Minty Alley by C.L.R. James Pdf

The only novel from the world-renowned writer C.L.R. James - this extraordinary, big-hearted exploration of class was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in the UK 'A novel written nearly a hundred years ago that brings the past alive with such charm, vitality and humour.' Bernardine Evaristo, from the Introduction 'As he walked home he looked up at the myriads of stars, shining in the moonlight. Did people live there? And if they did, what sort of life did they live?' It is the 1920s in the Trinidadian capital, and Haynes' world has been upended. His mother has passed away, and his carefully mapped-out future of gleaming opportunity has disappeared with her. Unable to afford his former life, he finds himself moving into Minty Alley - a bustling barrack yard teeming with energy and a spectacular cast of characters. In this sliver of West Indian working-class society, outrageous love affairs and passionate arguments are a daily fixture, and Haynes begins to slip from curious observer to the heart of the action. Minty Alley is a gloriously observed portrayal of class, community and the ways in which we are all inherently connected. An undisputed modern classic, this is an exceptional story told by one of the twentieth century's greatest Caribbean thinkers. Selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation.

Author : Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1617030880

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C. L. R. James by Aldon Lynn Nielsen Pdf

This study of C. L. R. James's writings is the first to look at them as literature and not as theory. This sustained analysis of his major published works places them in the context of his less well-known writings and offers an encompassing critique of one of the African diaspora's most significant thinkers and writers. Here the author of Black Jacobins, World Revolution, A History of Pan-African Revolt,, Beyond a Boundary, and the lyric novel Minty Alley is seen not only as among the great political philosophers but also as the literary artist that he remained, from his first writings in his native Trinidad through his underground years in America, to his final essays and speeches in London. The writings of James have inspired revolutionaries on three continents. They have altered the course of historiography, shown that way toward independent black political struggles, and established a base for much of today's study of culture. This study evaluates them as powerful works of literature.

Author : Marlon James
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101011317

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The Book of Night Women by Marlon James Pdf

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings "An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings, desires, and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. But the real revelation of the book-the secret to the stirring imagery and insistent prose-is Marlon James himself, a young writer at once breath­takingly daring and wholly in command of his craft.

Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:253457852

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Minty Alley by Cyril Lionel Robert James Pdf

Author : C L R James
Publisher : Random House
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781446496657

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Beyond A Boundary by C L R James Pdf

'To say "the best cricket book ever written" is piffingly inadequate praise' Guardian 'Great claims have been made for [Beyond a Boundary] since its first appearance in 1963: that it is the greatest sports book ever written; that it brings the outsider a privileged insight into West Indian culture; that it is a severe examination of the colonial condition. All are true' Sunday Times C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and writing about the sport, he recounts the story of his overriding passion and tells us of the players whom he knew and loved, exploring the game's psychology and aesthetics, and the issues of class, race and politics that surround it. Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part passionate celebration and defence of cricket as an art form, part indictment of colonialism, Beyond a Boundary addresses not just a sport but a whole culture and asks the question, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:237153756

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Minty Alley by Cyril Lionel Robert James Pdf

Author : Mary Lou Emery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521872133

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Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature by Mary Lou Emery Pdf

This ambitious study offers a comprehensive analysis of the visual in authors from the Anglophone Caribbean. Mary Lou Emery analyses works by George Lamming, C. L. R. James, Derek Walcott, Wilson Harris, Jamaica Kincaid and David Dabydeen. This study is an original and important contribution to both transatlantic and postcolonial studies.

Author : Morag Shiach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521854443

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The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel by Morag Shiach Pdf

The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.

Author : Holly Mazzochi
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781098064891

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Bently the Bully by Holly Mazzochi Pdf

The cool, crisp days of autumn are finally here! Kids around the neighborhood are excited to swing, slide, and climb at their favorite playground. That is, until Bently shows up. He is ready to pull some hair, blacken some eyes, and break some bones. The sound of his footsteps, thump, thump, thump, sends children scattering in all directions for a spot to hide. No one is safe. Until one day, a brave boy named Harvey finds the courage to stand up to Bently. Little Harvey wants to make a big change in how his friends are being treated. What will Bently do? Will Bently show an apologetic heart? Will Harvey and his friends be able to forgive?

Author : Nicole King
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781604736014

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C. L. R. James and Creolization by Nicole King Pdf

C. L. R. James (1901-1989), one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century, expressed his postcolonial and socialist philosophies in fiction, speeches, essays, and book-length scholarly discourses. However, the majority of academic attention given to James keeps the diverse mediums of James's writing separate, focuses on his work as a political theorist, and subordinates his role as a fiction writer. This book, however, seeks to change such an approach to studying James. Defining creolization as a process by which European, African, Amerindian, Asian, and American cultures are amalgamated to form new hybrid identities and cultures, Nicole King uses this process as a means to understanding James's work and life. She argues that, throughout his career, whether writing a short story or a political history, James articulated his attempt to produce revolutionary, radical discourses with a consistent methodology. James, a Trinidad-born scholar who migrated to England and then to the United States and who described himself both as a black radical and a Victorian intellectual, serves as a definitive model of creolization. King argues that James's writings also fit the model of creolization, for each is influenced by diverse types of discourses. James rarely wrote from within the confines of a single discipline, instead choosing to make the layers of history, literature, philosophy, and political theory coalesce in order to make his point. As his West Indian and Western European influences converge in his work and life, he creates texts that are difficult to confine to a specific category or discipline. No matter which writerly medium he uses, James was preoccupied with how to represent the individual personality and at the same time represent the community. The C. L. R. James that emerges from King's study is a man made more compelling and more human because of his complicated, multilayered, and sometimes contradictory allegiances.

Author : Cyril Lionel Robert James
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0631184953

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The C.L.R. James Reader by Cyril Lionel Robert James Pdf

Author : Hilary Beckles,Brian Stoddart
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Cricket
ISBN : 0719043158

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Liberation Cricket by Hilary Beckles,Brian Stoddart Pdf

Of the global community of cricketers, the West Indians are, arguably, the most well-known and feared. This book shows how this tradition of cricketing excellence and leadership emerged, and how it contributed to the rise of West Indian nationalism and independence.

Author : Christopher Moore
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061801822

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A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore Pdf

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death. It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it.

Author : David Featherstone,Christopher Gair,Christian Høgsbjerg,Andrew Smith
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781478002550

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Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket by David Featherstone,Christopher Gair,Christian Høgsbjerg,Andrew Smith Pdf

Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential sports books of all time, C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary is—among other things—a pioneering study of popular culture, an analysis of resistance to empire and racism, and a personal reflection on the history of colonialism and its effects in the Caribbean. More than fifty years after the publication of James's classic text, the contributors to Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket investigate Beyond a Boundary's production and reception and its implication for debates about sports, gender, aesthetics, race, popular culture, politics, imperialism, and English and Caribbean identity. Including a previously unseen first draft of Beyond a Boundary's conclusion alongside contributions from James's key collaborator Selma James and from Michael Brearley, former captain of the English Test cricket team, Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket provides a thorough and nuanced examination of James's groundbreaking work and its lasting impact. Contributors. Anima Adjepong, David Austin, Hilary McD. Beckles, Michael Brearley, Selwyn R. Cudjoe, David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Paget Henry, Christian Høgsbjerg, C. L. R. James, Selma James, Roy McCree, Minkah Makalani, Clem Seecharan, Andrew Smith, Neil Washbourne, Claire Westall

Author : Judith Bryan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241992371

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Bernard and the Cloth Monkey by Judith Bryan Pdf

WINNER OF THE SAGA PRIZE 1997: a literary award for trailblazing new Black British novelists 'A quietly outstanding work of fiction . . . an exemplary novel' Bernardine Evaristo A shattering portrayal of family, guilt and unshakable bonds as a family's deepest secrets explosively unravel When Anita finally returns home to London after a long absence, everything has changed. Her father is dead, her mother is away, and she and her sister Beth are alone together for the first time in years. They share a house. They share a family. They share a past. Tentatively, they reach out to one another for connection, but the house echoes with words unspoken. Dazzling and heart-breaking, Bernard and the Cloth Monkey is a searing portrait of family, a rebellion against silence and a testament to the human capacity for survival. Selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation.