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The Literary Achievement of C. L. R. James

to Queens Royal College, the local Government Secondary School, where he distinguished himself as a scholar and cricketer. In 1932 when James went to Britain, he had already written his first book The Life of Captain Cipriani’ which combined biography, social history, and political theory in a blend that proved characteristic of his later writing. The Life of Captain Cipriani was the start of an astonishingly productive and still unfinished literary career to which James has already devoted more than fifty years as biographer,historian, journalist, novelist, editor, playwright, literary critic, lecturer, and much else. The sheer volume of James’s writing, the scope of its subjects and the multiplicity of its genres defy detailed assessment in a single essay or even in a single volume. In a short essay all that may reasonably be attempted is to examine James’s technique, broadly define the scope of his achievement as a man of letters, and in terms of the literary history of the English-speaking Caribbean, give an account that may serve as an introduction to detailed and comprehensive studies of his writing that will undoubtedly follow. Despite its volume, scope, and diverse genres, James’s writing reveals