This book analyses cricket's place in Anglophone Caribbean
literature. It examines works by canonical authors - Brathwaite,
Lamming, Lovelace, Naipaul, Phillips and Selvon - and by
understudied writers - including Agard, Fergus, John,
Keens-Douglas, Khan and Markham. It tackles short stories, novels,
poetry, drama and film from the Caribbean and its diaspora. Its
literary readings are couched in the history of Caribbean cricket
and studies by Hilary Beckles and Gordon Rohlehr. C.L.R James'
foundational Beyond a Boundary provides its theoretical grounding.
Literary depictions of iconic West Indies players - including
Constantine, Headley, Worrell, Walcott, Sobers, Richards, and Lara
- feature throughout. The discussion focuses on masculinity,
heroism, father-son dynamics, physical performativity and aesthetic
style. Attention is also paid to mother-daughter relations and
female engagement with cricket, with examples from Anim-Addo,
Breeze, Wynter and others. Cricket holds a prominent place in the
history, culture, politics and popular imaginary of the Caribbean.
This book demonstrates that it also holds a significant and
complicated place in Anglophone Caribbean literature.
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