C. L. R. James

18 London (1938). Such liberation struggles came to take centre stage for the Johnson-Forest Tendency. Buhle Paul (ed.

R. His work is often associated with Caribbean and Afro-nationalism though James himself contended that the "either-or" was a false dichotomy and that Caribbean peoples were indebted to European as much as African cultural traditions. His work is a staple of subaltern studies and he figures as a pioneering and influential voice in postcolonial literature.