James produced his major postwar theoretical works during exile and deportation

Evidence

Our treatment of James must end here. However, his writing and politics continued. Deported from the United States in 1952, he returned to Britain, spent a few years at home in Trinidad only to return to the United States then Britain. Following Notes on Dialectics, he wrote State Capitalism and World Revolution (1950). At Ellis Island, while awaiting action by the U.S. Department of Immigration and Naturalization, he composed Mariners, Renegades and Castaways, a politico-literary critique of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Pierre that included observations on detention and his personal, conflict-ridden encounter with “American” Communist prisoners. Within the next ten years he was to publish Facing Reality (with Grace Lee and Pierre Chaulieu, 1958), Modern Politics (his 1960 lectures in Trinidad), Beyond a Boundary, a significant appendix to the reissue of The Black Jacobins (1963), and a stream of reviews, introductions, articles, and position papers the range of which is suggested in the recently published collections: The Future in the Present and Spheres of Existence. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1323