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Beyond a Boundary by C. L. R. James (1993, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-100822313839
ISBN-139780822313830
eBay Product ID (ePID)269810
Product Key Features
Number of Pages291 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBeyond a Boundary
SubjectCricket, Sociology / General, Sociology of Sports
Publication Year1993
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSports & Recreation, Social Science
AuthorC. L. R. James
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight17.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN93-017398
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Everything James has done has had the mark of originality, of his own flexible, sensitive, and deeply cultured intelligence. He conveys not a rigid doctrine but a delight and curiosity in all the manifestions of life, and the clue to everything lies in his proper appreciation of the game of cricket."-E. P. Thompson, "Everything James has done has had the mark of originality, of his own flexible, sensitive, and deeply cultured intelligence. He conveys not a rigid doctrine but a delight and curiosity in all the manifestions of life, and the clue to everything lies in his proper appreciation of the game of cricket."--E. P. Thompson
Dewey Decimal796.3/58
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments ix Introduction to the American Edition / Robert Lipsyte xi A Note on Cricket xvii Preface xxi Part One. A Window to the World 1. The Window 3 2. Against the Current 21 3. Old School-tie 39 Part Two. All the World's a Stage 4. The Light and the Dark 49 5. Patient Merit 66 6. Three Generations 72 7. The Most Unkindest Cut 82 Part Three. One Man in His Time 8. Prince and Pauper 101 9. Magnanimity in Politics 117 10. Wherefore Are These Things Hid? 128 Part Four. To Interpose a Little Ease 11. George Headley: Nascitur Non Fit 139 Part Five. W.G.: Pre-eminent Victorian 12. What Do Men Live By? 151 13. Prolegomena to W. G. 159 14. W. G. 171 15. Decline of the West 186 Part Six. The Art and Practic Part 16. "What is Art?" 195 17. The Welfare State of Mind 212 Part Seven. Vox Populi 18. The Proof of the Pudding 225 19. Alma Mater: Lares and Penates 253 Epilogue and Apotheosis 257 Index 263
SynopsisIn C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the sport is cricket and the scene is the colonial West Indies. Always eloquent and provocative, James--the "black Plato," (as coined by the London Times )--shows us how, in the rituals of performance and conflict on the field, we are watching not just prowess but politics and psychology at play. Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founding fathers of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of an unusual and unexpected game, Beyond a Boundary raises, in a warm and witty voice, serious questions about race, class, politics, and the facts of colonial oppression. Originally published in England in 1963 and in the United States twenty years later (Pantheon, 1983), this second American edition brings back into print this prophetic statement on race and sport in society.
