C.L.R. James
James's The Black Jacobins is the most brilliant history of the Haitian Revolution and a founding text of postcolonial thought. His Beyond a Boundary is widely considered the greatest book ever written about cricket and colonial society.
Works
- The Black JacobinsHistory of Haitian Revolution and liberation of enslaved people
- Beyond a BoundaryEssays on cricket, colonialism, and culture in Caribbean and beyond
- World RevolutionAnalysis of international communist movements and revolutionary politics
- Mariners, Renegades and CastawaysEssay connecting Moby Dick to revolutionary thought and political liberation
- Notes on DialecticsEssays on Hegelian dialectics and revolutionary marxist political theory