The rites of cricket and Caribbean literature / Claire Westall.
2021
PN849.C3
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Title
The rites of cricket and Caribbean literature / Claire Westall.
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ISBN
9783030659721 (electronic bk.)
3030659720 (electronic bk.)
9783030659714
3030659712
3030659720 (electronic bk.)
9783030659714
3030659712
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-65972-1 doi
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PN849.C3
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.89729
Summary
"This is a wonderful idea for a book, and Claire Westall executes the project with skill. It is extraordinarily comprehensive, demonstrating the huge collective labour which has been poured into cricket in the Caribbean, working as a means to bring the Caribbean itself into the imagination. Using literature as her lens is inspired. It will act as a resource for the future a long while yet. Westall brings Caribbean cricket alive."--Bill Schwarz, Professor of English, Queen Mary University of London, UK This book analyses crickets 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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New Caribbean studies.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Cricket, Literature and What CLR James Knew
2. Remembering Boyhood, Fathering, and the Villages of Cricket
3. You want to deny me style : Cricketing Representation, Communal Manhood and Nationbased Becoming
4. Give the Ball to the Poet : Poetic Rites, Heroic Action and Sublime Ambitions
5. Playing Away, Playing Again
6. Conclusion.
2. Remembering Boyhood, Fathering, and the Villages of Cricket
3. You want to deny me style : Cricketing Representation, Communal Manhood and Nationbased Becoming
4. Give the Ball to the Poet : Poetic Rites, Heroic Action and Sublime Ambitions
5. Playing Away, Playing Again
6. Conclusion.