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Mariners, Renegades and Castaways

C.L.R. James
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Region

Caribbean

Trinidad

Era

Contemporary

Language

English

Genre

Literary Criticism

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Study of Melville's Moby Dick as allegory for American totalitarianism, written while James was detained on Ellis Island.

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Unique literary criticism from Caribbean Marxist perspective

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Study of Melville's Moby Dick as allegory for American totalitarianism, written while James was detained on Ellis Island. Unique literary criticism from Caribbean Marxist perspective

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