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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.
Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison
writing and writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of
literary representation and formal aesthetics, the “value” or
“values” of literature, textual censorship and circulation,
institutional networks and literary-critical methodologies. It
offers scholarly essays exploring prison writing in relation to
wartime internment, political imprisonment, resistance and
independence creation, regimes of terror, and personal narratives
of development and awakening that grapple with race, class and
gender. Cutting across geospatial divides while drawing on nation-
and region-specific expertise, it asks readers to connect the
questions, examples and challenges arising from prison writing and
writing about imprisonment within the UK and the USA, but also
across continental Europe, Stalinist Russia, the Americas, Africa
and the Middle East. It also includes critical reflection pieces
from authors, editors, educators and theatre practitioners with
experience of the fraught, testing and potentially inspiring links
between prison and the literary world.
Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison
writing and writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of
literary representation and formal aesthetics, the "value" or
"values" of literature, textual censorship and circulation,
institutional networks and literary-critical methodologies. It
offers scholarly essays exploring prison writing in relation to
wartime internment, political imprisonment, resistance and
independence creation, regimes of terror, and personal narratives
of development and awakening that grapple with race, class and
gender. Cutting across geospatial divides while drawing on nation-
and region-specific expertise, it asks readers to connect the
questions, examples and challenges arising from prison writing and
writing about imprisonment within the UK and the USA, but also
across continental Europe, Stalinist Russia, the Americas, Africa
and the Middle East. It also includes critical reflection pieces
from authors, editors, educators and theatre practitioners with
experience of the fraught, testing and potentially inspiring links
between prison and the literary world.
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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