Beyond a Boundary - Hardcover

C.L.R. James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091662400 ISBN 13: 9780091662400

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1986

Synopsis

C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and writing about the sport, he recounts the story of his overriding passion and tells us of the players whom he knew and loved, exploring the game's psychology and aesthetics, and the issues of class, race and politics that surround it. Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part passionate celebration and defence of cricket as an art form, part indictment of colonialism, "Beyond a Boundary" addresses not just a sport but a whole culture and asks the question, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?'

About this title

About the Author

C L R James, historian, novelist, cultural critic and political activist, was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1901. In 1932 he joined his friend Learie Constantine in Britain, where he became cricket correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. A central figure in the Pan-African movement and the struggle for colonial emancipation, he returned to Trinidad in 1958 in its run-up to independence. He later went back to London, where he died in 1989.

Review

"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

Edition details

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0091662400
• ISBN 13: 9780091662400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2