Beyond a Boundary - Softcover

James, CLR

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852425598 ISBN 13: 9781852425593

Publisher: London: Serpent's Tail 1986., 1996

Synopsis

Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part celebration of the game of cricket, this self-portrait of a life spent playing, watching and writing about the game, tells us of its psychology and aesthetics, players the author knew, and the issues of class, race and politics surrounding it.

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: London: Serpent's Tail 1986.
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852425598
• ISBN 13: 9781852425593
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 267