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(More customer reviews)It doesn't matter what he writes about, this bloke has the goods. James was a real rennaisance man -- political, intellectual and physical. I've never read anyone who wrote about cricket with such depth and understanding. James makes the quantum leap from writing just about the game to writing about the different cultural forces in each country that shape the way the game is played. Want to know why such different, national brands of cricket are played in the Windies, England, Australia, Pakistan, South Africa, India or New Zealand? Then read this book. The chapter on W.G. Grace is a particular treat.
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Beyond A BoundaryIn 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.
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