The C.L.R. James Institute presents:

The Pequod Project

Ellis Island, prison in center background, likely location of James's
incarceration while writing Mariners. ©1997 Michelle Chomiak

The unabridged re-publication of C.L.R. James's classic Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In is a major event. We take this occasion to launch a new project, encouraging the exchange of ideas on James and Melville. Please send us your submissions, which we may add to the material listed below. Join us on a voyage of intellectual discovery, as individuals united, not as an organic collective or as representatives of diverse groups, but by the objective nature of the work we do. (R. Dumain)

Book announcement: Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: Herman Melville and The World We Live In by C.L.R. James, University Press of New England

Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: Herman Melville and The World We Live In: front and back covers of original 1953 edition

Quotations from Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways:

C.L.R. James on Moby Dick & State Capitalism

C.L.R. James on What They Do

The Crisis and the Triumph, typeset as a poem by Jim Murray

C.L.R. James on Marx's Capital and State Capitalism

Popular Democracy and the Creative Imagination: The Writings of C.L.R. James 1950-1963 by Anna Grimshaw

Book announcement: Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival by Clare L. Spark

Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Acid Test by Ralph Dumain

C.L.R. James, Intellectuals, Non-Identity, & the Division of Labor by Ralph Dumain

Herman Melville's Moby Dick & the Contradictions of Modernity by Ralph Dumain
(on The Autodidact Project site)

FEEDBACK: Melville the "Atheist" by Ralph Dumain (on The Autodidact Project site)

Mariners at 50: A Symposium (on Dartmouth College site)

Race, Class and the Crisis of the Bourgeois Ego in the Work of Herman Melville by Loren Goldner (on Goldner's site Break Their Haughty Power)

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