Louis James
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3797497 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Louis James |
| PRENOMES | Louis |
| SOBRENOME | James |
| ASSINATURA | JAMES L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Kent |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
West Indian intellectuals in Britain
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies, Studies in Imperialism seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of education and religion, sports history and children's literature.The cultural emphasis embraces studies of migration and …
Lagos
In African literature, Claude Wauthier has noted, ‘the town has become a symbol of contact with the West, with all its blemishes and attractions’ (Wauthier 1966, p. 168). It was not always so. In the European ‘Dark Ages’, Timbuktu in the West African Mali Empire, and now in Mali, just north of the Niger river, was a centre of commerce, religion and learning, with a thriving Arabic literature (Davidson 1959, pp. 91–92).
Mervyn Morris in Conversation
One of the Caribbean's most distinguished poets, Mervyn Morris is best known outside Jamaica for his taut, witty and perceptive poems on the human condition. Each is finely honed to an essential mo
Performance and Politics in Popular Drama
Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Leila Aboulela A Link to the Wider World Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 and grew up in Khartoum. Her novel, The Translator, was published to critical acclaim in 1999 and longlisted for the Orange
Roy A[ubrey] K[elvin] Heath (1926–2008)
Archie Markham (1939–2008)
The London Journal, 1845-1883
Writing the Ballad
The Ballad is medieval. It consists of three and a half verses, each of eight verses of eight feet. The whole thing is played on three rhymes, with ends of verses organized like this: A-B-A-B-B-C-B-C. This creates a harmonious rhythm to sing. All three verses end in the same verse. The final half verse, which is called sending, begins with a beautiful word,love or beautiful, for example. The Ballad ends with the rhymes B-C-B-C, in this half verse…
Literary reviews
Stray foreigners Baumgartner's Bombay. Anita Desai, London: Heinemann. 1988. 230pp. £10.95hb Tearing the Punjab Days of the Turban. Partap Sharma, London: Futura. 1988. 385pp. £4.95pb Ice‐Candy Man. Bapsi Sidhwa, London: Heinemann. 1988. 277pp. £11.95hb Privileged insulation Plans for Departure. Nayantara Sahgal, London: Penguin. 1987. 216pp. £3.95pb Mistaken Identity. Nayantara Sahgal, London: Heinemann. 1988. 194pp. £10.95hb Celebration and lam…
Literary Reviews
Classic realism. The Time of the Hero. Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp. London: Picador. 1986. 409pp. £4.50pb The Green House. Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. London: Picador. 1986. 405pp. £3.95pb Colluding with darkness. Of Love and Shadows. Isabel Allende. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. London: Cape. 1987. 274pp. £10.95hb The Lizard's Tail. Luisa Valenzu…
Reflections, and the bottom of the river
(1988). Reflections, and the bottom of the river: The transformation of Caribbean experience in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid. Wasafiri: Vol. 4, No. 9, pp. 15-17
Books
Between ‘white’ and ‘non‐white’ Anne Wilson, Mixed Race Children: A Study of Identity, Allen & Unwin, London, 1987. 230 pp., £25hb., £8.95 pb. ’Race’ and ‘class’ in the allocation of public housing Jeff Henderson and Valerie Karn, Race, Class and State Housing: Inequality and the Allocation of Public Housing in Britain, Gower, Aldershot, 1987, 331 pp., £19.50 hb. Muslim family law among South Asians David Pearl, A Textbook on Muslim Personal Law,…
Dark Muse
Books
British thinking about race before and after 1945 Paul B. Rich, Race and Empire in British Politics, Cambridge University Press, 1986,272 pp., £25. Reassessing the ‘black presence’ in English literature David Dabydeen (ed.), The Black Presence in English Literature, Manchester University Press, 1985, 214 pp.. £5.95 pb. 1 The Colonial Encounter: A Reading of Six Novels (Rex Collings, 1977). 2 The Study of Literature in an African University was pu…
Books
A dictionary in the minimal sense of the word E. Ellis Cashmore, Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984, 308 pp., £16.95 h.b. Racial harmony as a public good Michael Banton, Promoting Racial Harmony. Cambridge University Press, 1985, 141 pp., £5.95 p.b. ‘Locals’ and ‘foreigners’: anthropology in Battersea Sandra Wallman, Eight London Households, Tavistock Publications, London and New York, 1984, 232 pp., £14.00 h.b.…
Making the dragon dance
Literature and History
Journal Article Literature and History Get access JOHN BARRELL 1730–80. An Equal Wide SurveyLondon, Hutchinson, 1983ROGER SALES 1780–1830. Pastoral and PoliticsLondon, Hutchinson, 1983 Both in the series English Literature in History, edited by Raymond Williams Louis James Louis James Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 17, Issue 1, SPRING 1984, Pages 171–172, https://doi.org/1…
Books
Connections and explorations Wilson Harris, Explorations, edited with an introduction by Hena Maes‐Jelinek, Dangeroo Press, 8381 Mundelstrup, Denmark, 1981,145 pp. Epic variables in Trinidad and Jamaica Ralph de Boissiere, Crown Jewel, Allison & Busby, London, 1981,361 pp., £6.95. Michael Thelwell, The Harder They Come, Pluto Press, London, 1980,399 pp., pb. £2.95. Inner city symptoms and contexts Peter Hall (ed.), The Inner City in Context, Hein…
First-Person America
Performance and Politics in Popular Drama
Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does this mean that political theatre is or tries to be more attractive to more people than commercial theatre? Does it conversely mean that commercial theatre has no political effects? The articles i…
Obituary
Cruikshank and Early Victorian Caricature
Journal Article Cruikshank and Early Victorian Caricature Get access Louis James Louis James Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 6, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1978, Pages 107–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/6.1.107 Published: 01 October 1978
Taking melodrama seriously
Journal Article Taking melodrama seriously: theatre, and nineteenth-century studies Get access Louis James Louis James Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 1977, Pages 151–158, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/3.1.151 Published: 01 March 1977
The West Indies
West Indian intellectuals in Britain
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies, Studies in Imperialism seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of education and religion, sports history and children's literature.The cultural emphasis embraces studies of migration and …
Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Leila Aboulela A Link to the Wider World Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 and grew up in Khartoum. Her novel, The Translator, was published to critical acclaim in 1999 and longlisted for the Orange
The West Indies
Taking melodrama seriously
Journal Article Taking melodrama seriously: theatre, and nineteenth-century studies Get access Louis James Louis James Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 1977, Pages 151–158, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/3.1.151 Published: 01 March 1977
Cruikshank and Early Victorian Caricature
Journal Article Cruikshank and Early Victorian Caricature Get access Louis James Louis James Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 6, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1978, Pages 107–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/6.1.107 Published: 01 October 1978
Obituary
Performance and Politics in Popular Drama
Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does this mean that political theatre is or tries to be more attractive to more people than commercial theatre? Does it conversely mean that commercial theatre has no political effects? The articles i…
First-Person America
Books
Connections and explorations Wilson Harris, Explorations, edited with an introduction by Hena Maes‐Jelinek, Dangeroo Press, 8381 Mundelstrup, Denmark, 1981,145 pp. Epic variables in Trinidad and Jamaica Ralph de Boissiere, Crown Jewel, Allison & Busby, London, 1981,361 pp., £6.95. Michael Thelwell, The Harder They Come, Pluto Press, London, 1980,399 pp., pb. £2.95. Inner city symptoms and contexts Peter Hall (ed.), The Inner City in Context, Hein…
Making the dragon dance
Literature and History
Journal Article Literature and History Get access JOHN BARRELL 1730–80. An Equal Wide SurveyLondon, Hutchinson, 1983ROGER SALES 1780–1830. Pastoral and PoliticsLondon, Hutchinson, 1983 Both in the series English Literature in History, edited by Raymond Williams Louis James Louis James Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 17, Issue 1, SPRING 1984, Pages 171–172, https://doi.org/1…
Books
A dictionary in the minimal sense of the word E. Ellis Cashmore, Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984, 308 pp., £16.95 h.b. Racial harmony as a public good Michael Banton, Promoting Racial Harmony. Cambridge University Press, 1985, 141 pp., £5.95 p.b. ‘Locals’ and ‘foreigners’: anthropology in Battersea Sandra Wallman, Eight London Households, Tavistock Publications, London and New York, 1984, 232 pp., £14.00 h.b.…
Dark Muse
Books
British thinking about race before and after 1945 Paul B. Rich, Race and Empire in British Politics, Cambridge University Press, 1986,272 pp., £25. Reassessing the ‘black presence’ in English literature David Dabydeen (ed.), The Black Presence in English Literature, Manchester University Press, 1985, 214 pp.. £5.95 pb. 1 The Colonial Encounter: A Reading of Six Novels (Rex Collings, 1977). 2 The Study of Literature in an African University was pu…
Books
Between ‘white’ and ‘non‐white’ Anne Wilson, Mixed Race Children: A Study of Identity, Allen & Unwin, London, 1987. 230 pp., £25hb., £8.95 pb. ’Race’ and ‘class’ in the allocation of public housing Jeff Henderson and Valerie Karn, Race, Class and State Housing: Inequality and the Allocation of Public Housing in Britain, Gower, Aldershot, 1987, 331 pp., £19.50 hb. Muslim family law among South Asians David Pearl, A Textbook on Muslim Personal Law,…
Literary Reviews
Classic realism. The Time of the Hero. Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp. London: Picador. 1986. 409pp. £4.50pb The Green House. Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. London: Picador. 1986. 405pp. £3.95pb Colluding with darkness. Of Love and Shadows. Isabel Allende. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. London: Cape. 1987. 274pp. £10.95hb The Lizard's Tail. Luisa Valenzu…
Reflections, and the bottom of the river
(1988). Reflections, and the bottom of the river: The transformation of Caribbean experience in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid. Wasafiri: Vol. 4, No. 9, pp. 15-17
Literary reviews
Stray foreigners Baumgartner's Bombay. Anita Desai, London: Heinemann. 1988. 230pp. £10.95hb Tearing the Punjab Days of the Turban. Partap Sharma, London: Futura. 1988. 385pp. £4.95pb Ice‐Candy Man. Bapsi Sidhwa, London: Heinemann. 1988. 277pp. £11.95hb Privileged insulation Plans for Departure. Nayantara Sahgal, London: Penguin. 1987. 216pp. £3.95pb Mistaken Identity. Nayantara Sahgal, London: Heinemann. 1988. 194pp. £10.95hb Celebration and lam…
Writing the Ballad
The Ballad is medieval. It consists of three and a half verses, each of eight verses of eight feet. The whole thing is played on three rhymes, with ends of verses organized like this: A-B-A-B-B-C-B-C. This creates a harmonious rhythm to sing. All three verses end in the same verse. The final half verse, which is called sending, begins with a beautiful word,love or beautiful, for example. The Ballad ends with the rhymes B-C-B-C, in this half verse…
The London Journal, 1845-1883
Archie Markham (1939–2008)
Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Leila Aboulela A Link to the Wider World Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 and grew up in Khartoum. Her novel, The Translator, was published to critical acclaim in 1999 and longlisted for the Orange
Roy A[ubrey] K[elvin] Heath (1926–2008)
Performance and Politics in Popular Drama
Mervyn Morris in Conversation
One of the Caribbean's most distinguished poets, Mervyn Morris is best known outside Jamaica for his taut, witty and perceptive poems on the human condition. Each is finely honed to an essential mo
Lagos
In African literature, Claude Wauthier has noted, ‘the town has become a symbol of contact with the West, with all its blemishes and attractions’ (Wauthier 1966, p. 168). It was not always so. In the European ‘Dark Ages’, Timbuktu in the West African Mali Empire, and now in Mali, just north of the Niger river, was a centre of commerce, religion and learning, with a thriving Arabic literature (Davidson 1959, pp. 91–92).
West Indian intellectuals in Britain
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies, Studies in Imperialism seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of education and religion, sports history and children's literature.The cultural emphasis embraces studies of migration and …
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