Claire Westall
The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature
- Springer International Publishing
- 2021
- Gebunden
- 296 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030659714
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,
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