Subject: Re: Response to Styles post
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 96 11:53:36 EDT


> 
> For anyone who wants to get a sense of the relations between the sport of
> cricket and the postcolonial condition, read C. L. R. James' book <Beyond a
> Boundary.>  A briefer and very interesting discussion of cricket as art and
> as political allegory is in his 1963 essay 'What is Art?' reprinted in <The
> C. L. R. James Reader>, ed. by Anna Grimshaw (Blackwell, 1992).  James was
> from Trinidad and, along with Fanon and Cesaire was one of the most important
> Caribbean radicals and theorists.
> 
Of related interest (and deriving theoretically from James) is Michael
Manley's _A History of West Indies Cricket_.


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