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
"
""Beyond a Boundary" . . . should find its place on the team with
Izaak Walton, Ivan Turgenev, A. J. Liebling, and Ernest
Hemingway."--Derek Walcott, "The New York Times Book Review
"
"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"
(1963), James devoted some of his finest pages to this
theme."--Edward Said, "The Washington Post
"
"A work of double reverence--for the resilient, elegant ritualism
of cricket and for the black people of the world."--Whitney
Balliett, "The New Yorker
"
""Beyond a Boundary" is""a book of remarkable richness and force,
which vastly expands our understanding of sports as an element of
popular culture in the Western and colonial world."--Mark Naison,
"The Nation
"
"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
manifestations of life, and the clue to everything lies in his
proper appreciation of the game of cricket."--E. P. Thompson,
author of "The Making of the English Working Class
"
""Beyond a Boundary" is . . . first and foremost an autobiography
of a living legend--probably the greatest social theorist of our
times."--Manning Marable, "Journal of Sport & Social
Issues
"
"The great triumph of "Beyond a Boundary" is its ability to rise
above genre and in its very form explore the complex nature of
colonial West Indian society."--Caryl Phillips, "The New
Republic"
General
Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The C. L. R. James Archives |
Release date: |
June 2013 |
First published: |
June 2013 |
Authors: |
C. L. R. James
|
Dimensions: |
231 x 147 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
288 |
Edition: |
Anniversary |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-5563-2 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-8223-5563-9 |
Barcode: |
9780822355632 |
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