Ebook {Epub PDF} Beyond A Boundary by C.L.R. James

Beyond a Boundary. Cyril Lionel Robert James. Duke University Press, - Sports Recreation - pages. 2 Reviews. In C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the sport is cricket and the 3/5(2). Postcolonial and Colonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Caribbean Studies. This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written. Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by Sports www.doorway.ru: “It's a measure of James's value as a writer that a case can be made that Beyond a Boundary is one of the best books about a sport ever written, and yet it's hard to imagine anyone placing it among the three or four most important books that James wrote. It is, however, well worth reading, because of what it tells us about James' political development, and because of its much broader lessons about sports.”Cited by: 6.

Beyond a Boundary () is a memoir on cricket written by the Trinidadian Marxist intellectual C. L. R. James, which he described as "neither cricket reminiscences nor autobiography". It mixes social commentary, particularly on the place of cricket in the West Indies and England, with commentary on the game, arguing that what happened inside the "Boundary Line" in cricket affected life beyond. %T Beyond a Boundary %A James, C.L.R. %I Duke University Press %D [] %O paperback, index %G ISBN %P xv,pp. yond a Boundary (), which beautifully blends witty recollection and shrewdly appreciative insight, is a classic of sportswriting, political analysis and esthetic theory."—William E. Cain, The New York Times Book Review () "Although C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary is not autobiography in.

In 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. “As a player, James the writer was able to see in cricket a metaphor for art and politics, the collective experience providing a focus for group effort and individual performance [In] his scintillating memoir of his life in cricket, Beyond a Boundary (), James devoted some of his finest pages to this theme.”—. Postcolonial and Colonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Caribbean Studies. This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written. Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by Sports Illustrated.