{"product_id":"mariners-renegades-castaways","title":"Mariners, Renegades \u0026 Castaways","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: C.L.R. James \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Brandeis University Press (2025)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"collapse-truncated collapse show\" id=\"example-collapse-truncated-1\" data-max-height=\"243\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"collapse-truncated-inner\"\u003eIn this complete edition of his seminal work of literary and cultural criticism,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMariners, Renegades, and Castaways\u003c\/i\u003e, James anticipated many of the concerns and ideas that have shaped the contemporary fields of American and postcolonial studies. In this provocative study of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein which he challenged the prevailing Americanist interpretation that opposed a “totalitarian” Ahab and a “democratic, American” Ishmael, James offers instead a vision of a factory-like Pequod whose “captain of industry” leads the crew to their doom. In addition to demonstrating how such an interpretation supported the United States’ emerging national security state, he also related the narrative of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto his own persecuted position at the height of McCarthyism. It is precisely this personal, deeply original material that was excised from the first edition of this book.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith a new foreword by Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein—theoretical physicist, advocate for a just science, and James’s granddaughter—and an introduction by Professor Donald E. Pease at Dartmouth College that places the work in its critical and cultural context,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMariners, Renegades, and Castaways\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis once again available in a new edition.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CDC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44053258633315,"sku":"9781684582792","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/mariners.jpg?v=1773340387","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/mariners-renegades-castaways","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}