The son of a provincial school administrator in British-governed Trinidad, James disappointed his family by embracing the culture and passions of the colonial underclass, Carnival and cricket. He joined the literary avant-garde of the island before leaving for Britain. In the UK, James swiftly became a beloved cricket journalist, playwright for his close friend Paul Robeson, and a pathbreaking scholar of black history with The Black Jacobins (1938), the first history of the Haitian revolt.
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Taal Engels ● Formaat PDF ● Pagina’s 48 ● ISBN 9781629635606 ● Editor Paul Buhle & Lawrence Ware ● Uitgeverij Pm Press ● Gepubliceerd 2018 ● Downloadbare 3 keer ● Valuta EUR ● ID 6928401 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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